The deputies rejected Thursday, December 3 a draft law LR wishing to change the Constitution to strengthen secularism and the fight against communitarianism, a text of "
incantation
" according to the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti.
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Imprecise in its drafting, "
approximate in its objectives
" and carrying a "
disproportionate infringement of freedom of conscience
": Dupond-Moretti worked before the National Assembly to dismantle the LR text from the Senate, which intended to burn politeness to the executive and its future “
separatism
”
bill
.
"
The outlines of the rule of law cannot be approximate,
" denounced the Minister of Justice who, on the other hand, advocated the government project which must be presented to the Council of Ministers on December 9.
"
This text will equip us with concrete tools and will allow us to guarantee the preeminence of the laws of the Republic without having to touch the Constitution
", highlighted Éric Dupond-Moretti.
"
The time is not for incantation but for action,
" he noted.
The two-article LR bill was adopted on October 19 at the Palais du Luxembourg dominated by the right, by 229 votes and 23 abstentions - without a vote against in the absence of the left - three days after the beheading of Samuel Paty .
The text had been on the agenda long before the assassination of this history teacher who had shown his students caricatures of Mohammed.
The bill aiming "
to guarantee the preeminence of the laws of the Republic
" would have opened the way to a referendum but it was the subject of a broad front of the refusal in the hemicycle where it received the only support of the 'UDI and RN deputies.
However, according to LR deputy, Annie Genevard, rapporteur of the text, "
it is more than ever necessary to recall the value of our republican principles and the primacy of the common rule over individual claims
".
Its article 1 recalled an "
obvious fact
" for Genevard: "
No one can take advantage of his origin or his religion to exempt himself from the common rule
", when his article 2 provided for to include in the Constitution "
the obligation to political parties to respect the principle of secularism in the same way as national sovereignty and democracy
”.
