Veiled student: the president of the Assembly rules out a change in the rules

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" outside the chamber: the President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand (LREM) on Tuesday ruled out any change in the rules, despite the recent incident involving a student veiled in committee, AFP learned from parliamentary sources.

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During the conference of presidents of the Assembly, the boss of the LR group Damien Abad returned to the departure of right-wing deputies and an elected LREM, last Thursday of a commission of inquiry where Maryam Pougetoux, the vice-president of the UNEF, who had presented with a hijab.

Mr. Abad asked if initiatives were planned to ensure consistency of the institution's rules.

Richard Ferrand reminded him of the ban on the wearing of any conspicuous religious symbol in the hemicycle, but for deputies only.

And for the rest, "

" he said, according to reported comments.

The holder of the perch, in the name of the principle of secularism, added that the status quo made it possible to respect both the law and the political debate.

The departure of the deputies to protest against the presence of the veiled student, perceived by them as "

" communitarian, had briefly ignited yet another quarrel over the place of religious symbols in public life.