Four deputies from the Renaissance, the MoDem, the PS and the Ecologists announced, this Monday, October 13, in a press release, the presentation of a bill aimed at establishing proportional representation in legislative elections, which will contribute, according to them, to “unblocking the country.”
The text presented by Erwan Balanant (MoDem), Guillaume Gouffier Valente (Renaissance), Jérémie Iordanoff (ecologist) and Marie Récalde (PS) also has the support of 14 deputies, including the former president of the Republic François Hollande, the macronist Vincent Caure, the president of the environmental group Cyrielle Chatelain and the deputy of the PCF. Emmanuel Maurel group.
They all declare themselves convinced that the application of proportional representation would allow us to move away from a logic of “bloc against bloc” that “prevents the effective search for essential compromises.”
“Every voice counts”
This “fair” voting method also favors accession voting, makes it possible to “guarantee that every vote counts” and contributes “to rebalancing powers within the Fifth Republic by structurally reinforcing the role of Parliament,” they say.
The authors propose a mixed system, with “representatives elected by majority vote in electoral districts” and “deputies elected on national complementary lists.”
“Specifically, if a party has obtained 20% of the votes at the national level, it must be assigned 20% of the seats: if its deputies elected by a majority in the constituencies already represent 15% of the seats, then we will draw from its complementary list as many candidates as necessary to reach 20% of the deputies,” the statement describes.
The President of the Republic committed in 2017 to establish a proportional share of legislative elections. But the reform never saw the light of day, and had even been sidelined in recent months, with the right involved in a coalition with the Macronists saying they were fiercely opposed to it.
Source: BFM TV
