Ascension, Pentecost… The month of May is known for its share of public holidays associated with religious holidays. Non-working days, which were discussed for several days between elected officials on the right and on the left. It all started with the mayor of Grenoble EELV, Eric Piollet, who introduced the idea of removing “links to religious holidays in our republican calendar” in a tweet dated May 24. Senator L.R. Stéphane Le Ruduillier answered him by introducing a bill for their protection.
Sharing an article from Médiapart reporting that teachers have been instructed to identify students who are absent from class on Eid al-Adha—although this is permitted by the National Education—an elected environmentalist has proposed removing religious holidays from our calendar. “Let’s make public holidays secular holidays that celebrate our shared commitment to the Republic, to revolutions, to the Commune, to the abolition of slavery, to women’s rights or LGBT.”He adviced.
To make our calendar more “pluralistic”Eric Piolle wishes “leaving public holidays to be chosen according to everyone’s religious beliefs and introducing new public holidays in connection with our common history”, for example, to commemorate marriage for all or women’s rights. He also finds it absurd that the date of the abolition of slavery is a public holiday in the overseas departments, but not in mainland France. “To celebrate and celebrate the great events of our history, the rights won, social victories, which makes sense in the republic”According to him.
These days are immemorial cultural and social markers for the French people attached to them.
These days are immemorial cultural and social markers for the French people attached to them.
Stephan Le Rudulie
But on the right, some strongly disagree. In addition, LR senator for Bouches-du-Rhone, Stéphane Le Rudulier, announced that he had introduced a bill to dedicate France’s Judeo-Christian roots and establish the current public holidays. regretting it “Some extremists now want to attack holidays”He writes in an explanatory note to his text: “These days are age-old cultural and social markers for the French who are attached to them. The desire to remove them means (…) erasing Christian historical markers in order to tear the country out of its history and do it by hand”.
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Disputes around public holidays regularly arise for economic and political reasons. But few of those who dared to touch these dates. General de Gaulle canceled 8 May 1959. The public holiday was finally restored in 1968, then abolished again by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing in 1975 before it was consecrated by François Mitterrand. There are 11 public holidays in France, more in some territories such as Alsace, Moselle and the overseas departments. Six are associated with religious holidays.
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