Society, François Ruffin
Secularism (laïcité): Against extending the ban on religious symbols beyond school
Direction of change: unchanged, compared with current law.
The lever. Application of secularism (laïcité): religious symbols in public spaces, at school, at university, in sport, funding of religions. Direction rule: ↑ religious neutrality extended or stricter.
« Car la loi de 2004 interdit les signes religieux à l’Ecole. Mais pas à toute la société. Pas aux mamans qui accompagnent les sorties scolaires, le conseil d’Etat l’a d’ailleurs tranché. Pas aux étudiants à l’université. »1Translation by the editorsBecause the 2004 law bans religious symbols at School. But not in the whole of society. Not for mothers who accompany school outings, the Conseil d'État (Council of State) has moreover ruled on this. Not for students at university.
Words of François Ruffin, « La loi de 1905 ? Ils la bafouent, ils la désavouent » (blog), 26 March 2025. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme.
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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Constitution, art. 1 (« République indivisible, laïque, démocratique et sociale » [“indivisible, secular, democratic and social Republic”]); act of 9 December 1905 (separation of the Churches and the State); act of 15 March 2004 (religious symbols in state schools); act no. 2021-1109 of 24 August 2021 reinforcing respect for the principles of the Republic. Alsace-Moselle: Concordat regime maintained.
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Limits. Lever of principles, with no budgetary effect. Sole exception: ending the Alsace-Moselle concordat would abolish the State's payment of ministers of religion, but no figure was found in this research. The references to the laws of 1905, 2004 and 2021 are cited without online checking.
- Constitution, art. 1er: « « La France est une République indivisible, laïque, démocratique et sociale. » »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- « La loi de 1905 ? Ils la bafouent, ils la désavouent » (blog), 26 March 2025. Words of François Ruffin. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme. Read the source (« La loi de 1905 ? Ils la bafouent, ils la désavouent » (blog)).
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