The reform of the municipal vote for Paris, Lyon and Marseille seems to be badly embarked on the Senate, where it was greatly rejected this Wednesday, May 21 in the Law Committee before its June 3 exam in the Hemicycle.
Adopted in the National Assembly at the beginning of April to a year in the municipal elections, the bill initiated by the elected Renaissance officials runs the risk of experiencing a less glorious spell in the upper chamber, where the first two groups, the Republicans and the Socialist Party, are mostly opposed.
The balance of power was very clear in the Law Committee on Wednesday, with unanimous rejection. Only the centrist and macronist groups refrained at this stage, we learned from several participants.
In the assembly, the text had the favors of the national rally and the rebel France in addition to the majority of the government’s coalition. But the RN has only a handful of elected officials in the Superior Chamber and none, which complicates the ambitions of the defenders of the Reformation.
The “last word” will go to the deputies
This rejection in the committee is a bad sign for the discussion of the text in the hemicycle, Tuesday, June 3, even if several amendments could be deposited to modify the text, or even reduce the perimeter.
However, a rejection of the Senate would not completely compromise the final adoption of the reform because the government, which supports it, has certain levers to be successful, such as giving the “last word” to the deputies, even if it will delay the parliamentary calendar.
“Badly prepared, without any consultation, this bill raises multiple difficulties, both from a democratic and legal point of view, and even constitutional, without reaching the objectives shown of standardization and simplification of the elections,” he set the rapporteur LR Lauriane Josende to justify the rejection of the text.
Senators leader LR Mathieu Darnaud lamented the absence of “impact study.”
“Is it prudent to develop a voting system less than a year before municipal elections?” asked.
The bill put an end to the voting system implemented in 1982, under which voters in Paris, Lyon and Marseille voted in each district for a list of advisors, elected officials of the top of the list in the District Council and the Municipal Council.
It provides instead of establishing two separate elections, one to choose the municipality or advisors of the sector, the other to choose those of the Municipal Council, in a single district.
Source: BFM TV
