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Jean-Michel Blanquer was joined Monday by the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire and that of the Action and Public Accounts Gerald Darmanin. "You have to know which culture we want to defend, and I'm wearing a culture in which religion stays in the private, private sphere and has no place in public space," said the former. "I would prefer that women in the Republic, France, do not wear the headscarf," said the second. Note that both are from the ranks of Republicans.

But not all members of the government share this position. Government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye said that the presence of mother veiled companions posed "no difficulties" and that it allows a better "integration" of these women. "It has always been a good time because you have women like me and women who are veiled, who do not live in identical worlds, and you can have an exchange," she said. , remembering school trips she attended in Seine-Saint-Denis.

Also from the ranks of the left, Secretary of State for Digital Cedric O invoked his childhood in Villeurbanne (Rhône) during which mothers of Muslim friends accompanied school trips. "Veiled, sometimes, never, it's been a problem, never have I witnessed any proselytism." Another member of the government from the left wing told AFP: "This is a debate I do not understand.The veil is not prohibited in the public space.In the street or at the park, every child meets women who wear the headscarf. "

The differences of point of view reached their paroxysm with the criticism of LaREM MP Aurelien Tache against the Minister of National Education. In an interview with Point, the parliamentarian also from the left wing, believes that the words of Blanquer on the veil "cause confusion", and laments that the National Gathering can "recover the words of Jean-Michel Blanquer". Ineligible for the patron of the deputies LaREM Stanislas Guerini. "The approximation of the unworthy remarks of an elected RN with those of a minister does not conform to the respect of our collective", he reacted. "So I seized the mediation cell of the movement to allow Jean-Michel Blanquer and Aurelien Tache to have a time of explanation."

On LCI, the spokesperson of the movement and MP Aurore Berge, who shares the line of Jean-Michel Blanquer on the subject, said that Aurelien Tache had crossed the "red line". "It is not possible for a parliamentarian, who has responsibilities, not just to explain his disagreement with the Minister of National Education, but to relate his remarks to remarks by the far right. is where it seems to me that there is a red line that is crossed that deserves at least explanations. (…) Finally, I think that we must have this debate of substance on the question of secularism, on the question of the risk of a withdrawal of identity and community in our country. "

This is where we must look for the origin of this division. These dissensions are a sign of the lack of clarity of the President of the Republic on this subject, and the lack of a clear line on secularism.

The call to order of the Prime Minister Tuesday in the hemicycle will it be enough to calm the spirits? Edouard Philippe recalled: "You can wear a veil when you accompany a field trip. (…) Here is the state of law.I do not think it useless, within the National Assembly, to recall what is the right and remember what the law is. "