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Separatism: the right wants to toughen the bill in the Senate

3/29/2021, 6:49:30 PM


The elected LR and UDI denounce a text which "lacks ambition". After its adoption in the National Assembly, the bill confirming respect for the principles of the Republic, also called the bill on “separatism”, arrives at the Senate for a two-week examination. The text "which marks a late but necessary awareness" , write the two rapporteurs of the text Jacqueline Eustache-Brinion (LR) and Dominique Vérien (centrist), addresses issues as diverse as public servi

After its adoption in the National Assembly, the bill confirming respect for the principles of the Republic, also called the bill on “separatism”, arrives at the Senate for a two-week examination.

The text

"which marks a late but necessary awareness"

, write the two rapporteurs of the text Jacqueline Eustache-Brinion (LR) and Dominique Vérien (centrist), addresses issues as diverse as public service, religious associations, practice sports, education, online hatred or issues of equality and secularism.

Read also: Separatism: the oppositions rewrite the bill

But for the right-wing and central majority of the Upper House, the initial text, made up of 55 articles, does not go far enough.

Starting with its title considered too vague according to elected officials.

The LR group which intends to

"name things"

wishes

"to harden the text which lacks ambition",

according to the president of the group Bruno Retailleau, adding the precise mention

"of the fight against separatism"

.

"The perimeter chosen by

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