A week of the second round, the national rally candidate seems to be winding on one of his key measures. A blur that allows him to escape the criticism, while holding the two ends of the electorate she hopes to attract.
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Marine Le Pen crossed a grandmother on his way. In the Vaucluse, Friday, April 15, the national rally candidate (NR) was arrested in front of the cameras by a white hijab, Fatima Benmalek, 70 years old. “It’s a grandmother’s sign,” said that resident of Algerian origin. Marine Le Pen argued from the oppression of women in some neighborhoods, including “little girls”, while denying the words of his relatives that veiled women would themselves be Islamist.
His interlocutor has been unconvinced with the world: “It’s always Islam and the hijab, but the Harkis have returned with their sail. Each one’s choice. So Marine Le Pen is against the veil, why She takes selfies with veiled women? “
Further, another elderly woman, covered hair, indignantly faced the candidate who had repeated, in the morning on BFM-TV, that he was “essential” to prohibit the port of the veil, despite the Fundamental freedoms protected at the constitutional level.
The next day, after his 3-day thrust over a possible referendum on the death penalty, Marine Le Pen asserted that the prohibition of the veil was no longer alpha and omega of the fight against the fight against ‘Islamism. “I’m not getting,” she released Saturday in Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre (Eure-et-Loir). Rather, she returned this “complex problem” to the “discussion” in Parliament, then to the popular verdict by imagining that “citizens could repeal this law if they are not satisfied” by a referendum of citizen initiative.
Throughout the first week of between-Tours, Marine Le Pen was caught up by this controversial measure. A political obstacle for the far-right leader eager to reassure on the left. She proclaims, as in Avignon on Thursday, that she does not “[remove] from right to any French”, distinguishes in his speech the Muslim woman from the garment. Target “Islamist uniform” without targeting those who wear it, while submitting them to a fine: insufficient to convince the mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, now withdrawn from the Marine Le Pen campaign, which criticizes “an error” impossible “to implement”.
Impasse
With this general and absolute measure, France would become the only country in the world to ban the veil in public places. Interviewed Tuesday on France Inter, Marine Le Pen pleaded that “Mr. Bourguiba had banned the veil in Algeria” (in fact, in Tunisia). But in the 1980s, the Tunisian President had prohibited the port of the veil in public institutions and administrations. Not in the street.
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