François Bayrou begins this Wednesday, April 30, with the national demonstration, a series of consultations of political forces on proportional forces, which he himself has been demanding for a long time, but in which disagreements remain numerous.
The Prime Minister will receive each of the party leaders and presidents of parliamentary groups represented in the National Assembly, after an order linked to their digital importance.
The leader of the deputies RN Marine Le Pen, who form the most important group in the Assembly, and the president of the Llama Party, Jordan Bardella, will first be received at 10 am
A complete proportional vote
An interview will continue on Thursday, May 1 at 5 pm with the president of the Macronista Group and the Renaissance Party Gabriel Attal. It will be accompanied by deputy Pierre Cazeneuve, who directed a comparative analysis of the different voting methods.
François Bayrou defends a comprehensive proportional election, in all departments, for the legislative elections, while from the establishment of the fifth Republic, with the exception of the legislative elections of 1986, the deputies are elected by the majority of the two towers.
The RN also requires proportional, but with a majority premium for the list came to the head. “The tripolarization of political life leads to an absence of a majority,” said Marine Le Pen on Tuesday, who “does not imagine that the prime minister (…) can retire on this issue.”
When discussing this common claim with the RN, François Bayrou certainly hopes to reduce tension with the extreme right, which causes the threat of a motion of censure against his government.
Attal and Cazeneuve want to expand the debate
The RN denounces the absence of legislative perspectives on proportional, on immigration, as well as in the energy route (multiple energy programming, PPE). François Bayrou in this regard in this regard when postponing the date of publication of a Decree on the PPE.
But it is not guaranteed that the prime minister has the support of the macronistas this time, crossed by Moult’s “questions”, according to Pierre Cazeneuve.
In 2018, President Emmanuel Macron wanted to establish a mixed system with 15% of the deputies chosen for proportional, then the reform had been abandoned.
However, the deputies of the Renaissance now consider that the current voting system is “the least worse”, because the “distortion” between the number of votes and the number of deputies “no longer exists” in the current assembly, and this change “is not necessarily a priority” for the French in view of the new international context, Pierre Cazeneuve explained during a press point.
Gabriel Attal and Pierre Cazeneuve intend to expand the debate on Thursday to the question of “the effectiveness of public action”, leaving the reduction in the number of parliamentarians and the “simplification of the administrative millefeuille”. But they consider “harmful” to propose proportional in exchange for the accumulation of mandates, supported by force by François Bayrou.
“A link between a deputy and the voters of a territory”
The president of the Horizons party, Édouard Philippe, defends the majority ballot, which “imposes a link between a deputy and the voters of a territory.” It could support the proportional “if the possibility of combining a local executive mandate and the parliamentary mandate” was restored.
The self -employment of the Liot group is “quite unfavorable” to reform the voting system, according to its president Laurent Bânifous. On the right, the Republicans (LR) firmly oppose, as Laurent Wauquiez recalled.
“The proportional person will lead to what we are going to institutionalize the political chaos that we know at this time,” he thundered the head of the right on Sunday, before criticizing on Tuesday the “hierarchy of the priorities of government priorities in a ruined country” and “where there is such an explosion of insecurity and immigration”, in view of the “threats” at the international level. “
The Government wishes to be able to legislate on this issue “before the end of the parliamentary session if the debate is mature,” said his spokesman LR Sophie Primas on Wednesday. Other parties, especially on the left, want an evolution of the voting system.
But the PS is divided. Former President François Hollande is, while his first secretary Olivier Faure is against personally.
The PS deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire, recalled on Tuesday that “behind this slightly vague proportional word, hides an immense and immense subtlety, of practical variations.”
Source: BFM TV
