A slew of Breton flags.
A sign that proclaims “your society confuses equality and similarity”.
In all, thousands of people marched this Saturday in the streets of Guingamp (Côtes-d'Armor) - as in several cities, in Occitania or the Basque Country.
“There have never been so many demonstrators here,” says independent MP Paul Molac.
People thank me ”.
The parliamentarian from Morbihan embodies the fight for the promotion of regional languages, since the vote in April of his bill which gives Breton, Basque, Alsatian or Corsican better recognition.
The only thing is: the Constitutional Council censored two provisions. That which relates to the diacritic mark (ñ) in the last names, in the civil status. And above all, that which promotes “immersive” education, where the courses are mainly in the regional language. The wise men put forward article 2 of the constitution ("the language of the Republic is French"). A decision that could plunge into the illegality of many establishments, such as the Diwan schools. 15,000 students are affected by these methods.
"We would have done well without this problem before the regional ones," squeals a government adviser.
Some applicants do tons of it, while the majority of students learning regional languages do so in bilingual schools.
However, we must find a way out quickly.
Emmanuel Macron, Jean Castex and Jean-Yves Le Drian assured that a solution would be found.
“The law must liberate, never suffocate.
Open, never reduce, ”wrote the head of state on Facebook.
The majority divided
At the request of the government, a parliamentary mission could be requested in the coming days from the President of the National Assembly Richard Ferrand. Among the possible avenues: give an experimental character to these schools or outright change Article 2 of the Constitution. The equation is all the more complex as the majority is divided. While a hundred LREM deputies voted for the Molac law, about sixty on the other hand opposed it. It is among these elected officials that we find the signatories of the appeal to the Constitutional Council. An initiative viewed favorably, even encouraged, by the Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer.
If the demonstrations for the regional languages were everywhere good child, in Colmar (Haut-Rhin), the president of the Grand-Est region Jean Rottner was made flour by an autonomist. “I am very sensitive to this tribute to Alsatian pastry, he reacted with humor on Twitter. I keep some for my Kougelhopf. "