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The Austrian Constitutional Court rejected a state law prohibiting the wearing of headscarves in primary schools. The law was approved with the votes of the Popular Party (ÖVP, center-right) and the Freedom Party (FPÖ, extreme right), the two parties that formed the coalition in support of the first government led by Sebastián Kurz, who now governs without the direct support of FPÖ. The law referred to “any garment that has ideological or religious influences and that includes head covering,” but the government specified that it would not affect either. flap, the headdress worn by Sikhs as children, nor the kippa Jewish.
According to the Austrian Constitutional Court, the law, which was passed in May 2019, was not constitutional because it went against the right to religious freedom and could have led to the marginalization of Muslim students.
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