Marine Le Pen has said the hijab is 'a uniform imposed by Islamists' and should be banned in public during the televised French leadership debate. 
Macron says he would never ban signs of religious belief in public because doing so would be contrary to France’s constitution: 'You will incite a civil war if you ban the veil', he said.
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen went head-to-head in a live televised debate on Wednesday evening that could change the course of the presidential election this weekend
Macron-Le Pen debate: key moments in the French election head-to-head