The vote by “seated and raised” formally abolished within the National Assembly | EUROtoday

“This text is certainly symbolic but it reminds us that it is the lack of adaptation of the environment that generates a handicap, not the physical situation of a person. »» Sébastien Peytavie (generation.s, Dordogne), first deputy in a wheelchair, defended Wednesday March 12, in the National Assembly, a change in the regulation, intended to remove the vote by “seated and raised”, so as not to exclude elected officials unable to stand. A resolution adopted unanimously by the 183 deputies present, who expressed themselves by voting ordinary public ballot, using their electronic case. This text had been registered jointly by the president of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, on February 11, twenty years, day to the day, after the adoption of the law of 2005 for equal rights and opportunities, the participation and citizenship of people with disabilities.

According to article 63 of the Regulation of the National Assembly, except for personal appointments, deputies vote by default by hand. In the event of a tight result, the session president may ask them, to decide between them, to get up or to sit. If doubt persists, an ordinary public election is proceeded, or more rarely by the ballot in the gallery. The “seated and raised” vote can also be the usual to shut debates (article 57), and to resolve on the censorship and the exclusion of a deputy (article 72).

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