Headscarf ban at university: Holland disavows Valls – Le Figaro

VIDEO – The head of the state has taken against the foot of his prime minister on Thursday evening on France 2, stating that “the university is a place of freedom”

It is an end of inadmissibility. And reframing mezza voce, but in good and due form, Manuel Valls. François Hollande has ruled out any effect Thursday headscarf ban at university. “No, there will be no ban at university. The university is a place of freedom, with rules that have always been those of political liberty, union, religious, “said the Head of State during the show Citizen Dialogues on France 2. “There will be no veil law, and there is no rule which moreover would not do,” he said.

Saying this, Holland knew he was taking against the foot of his prime minister, on Wednesday in an interview with Libération , said on the contrary that “it should be done.” This is probably why Holland also sought to rebalance a little about her. “It was said by the Prime Minister, who was very fair, is that we can not have in college proselytizing, intrusion in the courts, have pressure on a number of lessons “he has taken care to add.

” in the government, there is that does not stop talking. And it’s tiring “

This issue of the headscarf ban at university resulted in significant differences in the government. “There is no need to unveil legislation to the university,” reacted Wednesday morning the Secretary of State for Higher Education, Thierry Mandon. “If I have the opportunity to talk about him (Manuel Valls, Ed), I will tell him that there is no need of law”, added Mandon.

The Minister guardianship, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, had also expressed doubts about the opportunity to lead such a project. “We know his convictions. The veil it is unpleasant. He would like it to be banned in many places, including at the university, but he himself recognizes that it is complicated, because in college, the principle of freedom of belief prevails ” reacted the Education Minister on the sidelines of a visit to Vaulx-en-Velin (Rhône).

It seems that Valls is quite unpopular these statements. Wednesday afternoon, during the visit the planetarium of Vaulx-en-Velin, it was confided to a student who had gently tease a little talkative fellow, “You know, the government there which does keep talking. And it’s tiring. “