Prohibit the wearing of the veil in public spaces “is not a priority”but it’s “an objective”, says Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally, support of Marine Le Pen, guest Tuesday April 19 of the “Presidential Mornings” of franceinfo. Marine Le Pen is not “not at all” backtracking on his proposal to ban the veil in public space, he assured. Saturday, during a trip to Saint-Rémy-sur-Avre, in Eure-et-Loir, the RN candidate admitted that the veil was a “complex problem”that she is not “not obtuse” and that her controversial street veil ban will be debated in the National Assembly.
“When we say that we are not obtuse on this question, that means that we are not going to do it tomorrow morning”, deciphered Jordan Bardella. Marine Le Pen “indicated in an extremely clear and unambiguous way, I believe, that it was not a priority”, he said. Thus, the ban on wearing the veil in public spaces “is a goal”he insisted.
According to him, “there will be no age distinction”. Remarks which contradict those made by the spokesman of the RN, Sébastien Chenu, on Sunday. “Parliament will take up this question and provide practical answers so that the 70-year-old grandmother who has been wearing her little veil for years is not concerned, because she is not the target”contrary to “Islamists”he said on BFMTV.
“The French woman is free, the French woman does not have to veil her head to express a political claim, at least in the public space”, he assured. On the other hand, “the beard will not be prohibited” if Marine Le Pen comes to power, no more than the djellaba or the yarmulke. “It will not have escaped you that the yarmulke is not a tool of claim of fundamentalist Islamists a priori”he observed.
“All this will be done serenely, calmly”, promised Jordan Bardella. As to “religious personnel”especially the Catholic sisters, “will not be targeted by this law.”