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Wed 07 Jul 2010France votes for ban on face veils
FRANCE’S parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a controversial ban on wearing face veils in public.
Members of the National Assembly yesterday voted to approve the Bill by 335 votes to one after most of the opposition – the Socialist Party (PS), the Greens and the Communists – refused to take part in the vote. The measure won the support of president Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP bloc, the centre-right Nouveau Centre and a small number of left-wing deputies.
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