Divisive subject in the National Assembly. While Parliament is examining a bill from La République en Marche (LREM) relating to sport, deputies and senators disagree on one issue: the ban on wearing the veil in competition. The senators had voted on January 19 an amendment prohibiting the wearing of “conspicuous religious symbols” during a sports competition, which was immediately erased by the deputies.
VIDEO. The “Hijabeuses” play football in front of the Senate once morest the ban on wearing the veil in competition
As the two chambers might not agree on a common text, a new reading is scheduled for Wednesday in the National Assembly, before a new passage by the Senate on February 16, with a view to final adoption. February 24.
Ciotti denounces a “submission” to Islamism
The debate is already heated in the National Assembly. The deputy Les Républicains Éric Ciotti, adviser to Valérie Pécresse, castigated a “submission” to the Islamism of the majority and the executive, who refuse to include in the law the ban on the veil in sports competitions.
The reactions to Eric Ciotti’s charge were immediate. On behalf of the government, Secretary of State Nathalie Elimas was surprised at the “political platform” offered by Mr. Ciotti. “We are fighting once morest radicalization in sport like never before,” she said, especially following the vote last summer on the law once morest separatism. “You might make a good Prime Minister of Mr. Zemmour”, launched for his part the deputy Pierre-Yves Bournazel, former member of the Republicans and now affiliated with the Agir group, within the majority.
The text, which also includes measures on the governance of federations and on the possibility desired by French football to create a commercial company to manage TV rights, comes in a tense context. A demonstration scheduled for Wednesday near the Palais Bourbon at the call of the “Hijabeuses”, a collective of footballers who campaign for the right to wear the veil during competitions, was banned on Tuesday by the police headquarters.
