During the televised face-to-face of the two presidential finalists on Wednesday, the candidate of the national gathering confirmed wanting to ban the Islamic scarf in the public space.
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It will have been safely surprised the occasion of one of the most alleged exchanges between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron during their televised debate, Wednesday, April 20th. For nearly fifteen days, the two candidates of the second round of the presidential election had engaged remote skirmish on the ban on the port of the Islamic veil on the public road and in the public places open to the public, that promises to establish the candidate of the national gathering. In front of the viewers, the outgoing President accused him of driving “to the civil war” with a project that would have “no meaning”, would be “infasite” and betray “France of universalism” as well as its constitution.
The direct question of the arbitratist journalists of the debate – “Will change the rules that govern the port of religious signs in the public space?” – Forced me me le Pen to get out of the blur That she had projected in recent days on her initial proposal to prohibit goal in white the wearing of the scarf to Muslims who cover her head, under pain of being imposed a fine. It was not done without a start of slip: “I am against the prohibition … I am for the prohibition of the veil in the public space, said the candidate of the extreme right. I said in the clearest way. “
Saturday, April 16, Marine Le Pen seemed to let go of the ballast by referring this “complex problem” to a parliamentary discussion and a hypothetical referendum. Wednesday, she cut short at this beginning of recoil. She again claimed that she did not attack a religious sign, but to an ideological symbol, Islamism, who would like her “impose the sharia” in a republic she wants “proud of her -Même, not shameful “.
for Macron, Le Pen” confuses all the problems “
m. Macron strongly attacked him by accusing him of “confusing all the problems” by sliding a religion to Islamism, then to foreigners. Finally, he reproached him, by this announced prohibition, to “push millions of our compatriots, by their religion, out of the public space”. “It is, on the contrary, to defend the Republic, to defend equality between men and women, to defend the city than to oppose these Islamists through a law which aims and which is only aimed at. “, retorted M me Le Pen.
The two candidates were scarfed on the law adopted in the summer by Parliament to fight against “separatism”, first against the Islamist excesses. “She did not use any,” said the Pen, who argued for “closing the 570 radical mosques” and not to be satisfied with a charter of secularism, ” That law requires associations that affect public subsidies to sign. Mr Macron, on the contrary, defended him by saying that the 99 mosques “suspected of separatism” were placed “under surveillance”, on which “23 were closed and 36 have changed and are under control.”.
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