The legislation making it mandatory to hang a portrait of the president in all French town halls has passed its first reading in the French parliament
Nationwide protests over the reforms have swept France for weeks.
The portrait plans are part of a wider proposal to require town halls with 1,500 inhabitants or more to display the French and European flags. He also told an unemployed gardener looking for work that he could find him a job simply “by crossing the street.” “There are only three colours to which the French bow,” said Jean-Philippe Tanguy, a lawmaker with Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party. “Blue, white, and red.”Article content
The bill also requires town halls to hang the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which harks back to the French Revolution. In addition it says their facades should bear the French Republic’s motto of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite.
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