The issue of wearing a veil is regularly raised by politicians, most of the time to denounce an attack on women’s rights and secularism. So when a candidate for an election wears one, the debate ignites.
Controversy around the candidacy for the regional elections of Ilham MOUSSAID on the list of the NPA of the Vaucluse. He is accused of wearing the veil. Olivier Besancenot reacted in a press release. Commentary on factual images and title bench alternating with the statement by Ilham MOUSSAID as well as with the reactions Thierry MARIANI and Marylise LEBRANCHU, deputies.
Regional Elections: the candidate number 3 of the NPA list in the Vaucluse, Ilham MOUSSAID, wears a veil which arouses the curiosity of journalists... Aged 21, she is a student in BTS, qualified by NPA as "feminist internationalist and anti-capitalist activist". Sound Pierre GODARD, head of list NPA Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur: "Abbé Pierre sat in cassock at the National Assembly".
Interview with Sihem HABSHI, president of "Neither hookers nor submissives" who says he is "shocked that a party that claims to be progressive displays and puts forward a symbol of pressure from women". For Olivier BESANCENOT, spokesman of the NPA, Ilhem MoussaId represents France in its diversity: "We have a party that also resembles the majority of the population, a population that is changing".
The spokesman of the NPA, Olivier BESANCENOT, returns on the case of the candidate veiled on the lists of the Vaucluse, which provoked a big controversy. He speaks of "instrumentalization on the part of the government" and defends secularism and feminism within his political organization.