Vote on SUVs in Paris: the vote illustrates the east-west divide | EUROtoday

Parisian voters voted, Sunday February 4, by 54.55% in favor of tripling the parking price for autos weighing greater than 1.6 tonnes. The enhance should be applied in September, in keeping with Paris City Hall.

The vote mobilized 5.68% of the voters, or 78,121 voters, 42,415 for, 35,340 in opposition to – there have been 103,084 who voted in the course of the earlier vote in opposition to self-service scooters in April 2023.

The Parisian electoral geography is usually determined between east and west (as within the presidential or European elections), and the vote on February 4, regardless of its low participation, is not any exception. The rich west of the capital largely voted in opposition to the rise in parking charges for heavy and polluting autos (greater than 80% within the 16^e district), whereas the japanese districts have, quite the opposite, supported this surcharge (greater than 75% within the 10^e borough).

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