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Banning the Veil: "Inapplicable", "Freedom of worship"... Why Is the RN's Proposal to Organise a Referendum Controversial?

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The deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy assures that the National Assembly does not aim at a religious symbol but an ideology, while defending the holding of a referendum on the wearing of the Islamic veil.

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In an ideal world, no woman should submit to the patriarchal diktat of the Islamic veil. However, one must go to the obvious: to ban it would today be impossible to implement, says Eve Szeftel, editor of Marianne.

·Paris, France
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MAINTENANCE - Sanctioning the wearing of the veil in the public space of a fine, as proposed by the National Rally, would be difficult to set up and politically risky, analysis the anthropologist who instead recommends to ban this Islamic garment from minors.

·Paris, France
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Jean-Philippe Tanguy presented as "cut" internally the prohibition of wearing the veil. Plunging into embarrassment his party by exposing to the public the divergences of line and programmatic blur.

·Paris, France
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The deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy assures that the National Assembly does not aim at a religious symbol but an ideology, while defending the holding of a referendum on the wearing of the Islamic veil.

·France
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In the event of a victory in the 2027 presidential election, the National Rally wants to consult the French on the prohibition of the wearing of the veil. In a shopping center in the Paris region, the main concerned questions about the inequality of treatment between the different religions.

Edouard Philippe, the center-right candidate for the 2027 French presidential elections, stated that a potential referendum proposal by the far right to ban headscarves in public spaces would be unconstitutional if they win the elections.

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franceinfo.fr broke the news on Tuesday, September 1, 2026.
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