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20:38 EDT, 12 May 2021
President Emmanuel Macron s centrist party has withdrawn its backing for a Muslim candidate because she was pictured in a poster with her head covered.
Sara Zemmahi, who is an engineer, was dragged into the latest argument about Muslim dress in France after her image was tweeted by Marine Le Pen s National Rally party.
She was seen dressed in a white heard scarf as she stood smiling with colleagues on posters and pamphlets in Montpellier, where she is standing in regional elections in June.
While France bans Muslim headscarves in classrooms, they aren t forbidden in the public space or on campaign posters.
Macron’s party bars local poll candidate over hijab photo
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AFP / May 13, 2021, 07:33 IST
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PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party has barred a Muslim woman from running for as candidate on its ticket in a local election after she wore an Islamic headscarf for a photo that appeared on a campaign flier.
La Republique en Marche said the party line was that in secular France there should be no place for the overt display of religious symbols on electoral campaign documents. “This woman will not be an En Marche candidate,” Stanislas Guerini, the party’s general secretary, told RTL radio. French law does not prohibit the wearing of the hijab or other religious symbols in images that appear on campaign fliers. The episode illustrates how sensitive a subject the place of Islam in France has become ahead of next year’s presidential vote, with the main challeng
13 May 2021
French president Emmanuel Macron’s party has pulled support from one of its candidates in a local election after she wore a hijab in a campaign flyer.
Stanislas Guerini, the head of La République En Marche, President Macron’s party, said that they would not support Sara Zemmahi if she did not produce new campaign promotional material without the hijab.
Although wearing the Islamic headscarf as a political candidate is not prohibited by law in France, the En Marche leader argued that the party would prohibit any religious symbols from being affiliated with their political movement.
“I say things very clearly. With the governing bodies of the party, I set a political line. We do not question the law. But the law also says that political movements can decide on the support given to their candidates,” Guerini told the French radio station RTL on Tuesday.