If the National Rally wins a group in the National Assembly in the legislative elections, the latter will present a first “text for the fight against Islamism”, said its leader Marine Le Pen on Thursday. “I want (it) to stop, to give the National Assembly the responsibility to decide on a law to fight against Islamism”, affirmed on France Inter presidential runner-up. “Because it continues to advance, perhaps a little more quietly during the election period, with demands like those faced by National Education, for clothes which are in reality religious clothes”, developed the far-right leader.
The ban on “Islamist uniforms”
The RN intends by this bill, which had been presented to the press in January 2021, to banish “Islamist ideologies” from all spheres of society, from cinema to school to libraries. In particular, it proposes to prohibit in its article 10 “signs or outfits constituting by themselves an unequivocal and ostentatious affirmation of” Islamist ideologies. Among these outfits is the veil, which the RN considers an “Islamist uniform”.
At the end of the presidential campaign, however, Marine Le Pen had watered down her wine, admitting that the veil posed “complex problems” and that she was “not obtuse”, promising that her controversial measure would be debated in the National Assembly.
A position on purchasing power
Marine Le Pen also did not want to say whether she would vote in favor of the government’s bill on purchasing power, which she first wants to “amend”. “I am going to amend it because the government’s method of checks is a bad method. The right method is to lower constrained spending”, “otherwise we contribute to feeding inflation”, estimated Marine Le Pen, who defends the reduction of VAT on gas, electricity and fuels, and its abolition for a hundred basic necessities.
But the head of the RN intends to participate in the cross-party commission on institutions to defend proportional representation, which in her eyes has become “urgent” because of the “tripolarization” of the political landscape.