A divided meeting validates the joint checklist poll for small municipalities | EUROtoday

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The National Assembly, March 26, 2025.

It was sufficient in a distinction to ignite the debates and trigger a number of suspensions of periods and a number of reminders to the rules. After lengthy hours of tense exchanges, the National Assembly adopted in second studying on Monday, April 7, a invoice aimed toward extending to municipalities with lower than 1,000 inhabitants the joint checklist poll within the municipal elections. This change, which places an finish to the bulk multinominal election, shall be efficient within the subsequent elections of 2026 for greater than 25,000 municipalities in France.

The proper -wing deputies believed a second to repel the deadline after an modification adopted at 142 votes towards 141, specifically with the assist of the Communist group. The authorities’s request for a second deliberation to lastly return to the preliminary textual content triggered sturdy reactions of a part of the hemicycle. The deputy nationwide rally (RN) of the Oise Michel Guiniot insurgiated within the reality of “Redo the vote when the vote is not suitable”whereas “Cheating!” »» descended from the ranks of the far proper in the direction of the presidential camp. Pierre Cordier (Les Républicains, LR, Ardennes) thought of that “The parliamentary majority [était] cracked “ After discussions associated to this textual content.

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