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Laïcité, extrémité, fragilité: our French-election series in full

The Intelligence from The Economist

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The Party's Identity Platform

CNN goes to the heart of a lapen stronghold, frejus. The town consistently votes for miss lepen's national rally. There we meet with frank gilletti, who's the regional head of the party. When i press him about wearing the hajab he gets frustrated and lapses into french is not te samde idenoise so i don't atte whyssuritasabmoc metavirto  the connotation is not the same. He says, to wear the veil is linked to a political agenda. This is key for those on the hard right, the only kind of islam is the political kind.

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