Jean-Michel Blanquer, Marlène Schiappa, Gérald Darmanin… After opposing Manuel Valls on his vision of secularism during the presidential election, Emmanuel Macron recruited within his government several personalities who made this subject a marker of their political identity and a more and more assertive fight over the course of the five-year term.
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These three ministers each defend in their hallway a firm line on secularism and the values of the Republic, with a few nuances.
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They share the same sensitivity on the merits, but there are differences in the way they approach it politically
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Jean-Michel Blanquer's approach is in fact only the tracing of what the most rigorous of the Republican spring say, when Gérald Darmanin, with his experience as a local elected official, has a more political and pragmatic approach.
Marlène Schiappa is more central.
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