the hope of a “return of the pendulum” of the majority deputies | EUROtoday

Wednesday October 4, Yaël Braun-Pivet, President of the National Assembly, and Gérard Larcher, President of the Senate, attended Emmanuel Macron’s speech earlier than the Constitutional Council, on the event of which the Head of State revealed its avenues for institutional reform. This presidential speech is available in a context the place increasingly more voices, inside the majority, are pleading for “a return of the pendulum”in the phrases of Renaissance MP Frédéric Descrozaille (Val-de-Marne), returning to reforms adopted lately which, in accordance with them, broken the hyperlink between elected officers and their territory.

In 2017, pushed by Mr. Macron’s promise to make “politics differently”, MPs On the transfer! had thus, amongst different measures supposed to revive the “confidence in political life”, eliminated the parliamentary reserve. This envelope – 146 million euros in 2016 – allowed deputies and senators to allocate subsidies in a discretionary, and generally opaque, method to municipalities or associations of their constituency. During heated debates in the Assembly in July 2017, the textual content’s rapporteur, Yaël Braun-Pivet, now president of the Palais-Bourbon, depicted a “old system” sustaining “the suspicion of cronyism”. When others, typically elected officers already current earlier than 2017, defended a system which made it potential to protect native roots.

But, six years later, the debate on the parliamentary reserve might return to the National Assembly. A transpartisan invoice, carried by Frédéric Descrozaille – who had beforehand voted for the elimination of the parliamentary reserve “with conviction” –, André Villiers (Horizons, Yonne) and Dino Cinieri (Les Républicains, Loire) and signed by greater than 130 deputies from the National Rally, MoDem and LIOT, plans to reinstate this subsidy to assist finance “projects presented by associations or municipalities of less than 18,000 inhabitants”.

“The group is now divided”

Some of the elected representatives of the majority additionally want to rethink the 2014 regulation which prohibits the accumulation of mandates of parliamentarian and mayor. Thus the Horizons vice-president of the National Assembly, Naïma Moutchou, plans to deliver ahead a invoice to permit a return “framed”. “Representative democracy is in bad shape. It could bring a little more proximity and connection between the local and national level”, she defends. An thought already supported in 2022 by Renaissance MP Karl Olive (Yvelines), who had not then acquired the assist of his group. “The return of the deputy-mayor combination can resolve the democratic divide that we are witnessing”nonetheless hopes this shut pal of Emmanuel Macron.

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