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DIn the evening of Tuesday 8 to Wednesday, April 9, the deputies voted for the principle article of the reform of the mode of election of the members of the Paris Council and the Municipal Councils of Lyon and Marseille, which now institutes two distinct polls in these three cities. 116 elected officers voted for and 41 towards, with 9 abstentions.

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Since 1982, there was an exception within the three largest cities in France. During municipal elections, voters vote solely as soon as, to designate borough or sector advisers. In Paris for instance, we transfer to elect 503 advisers (163 Paris advisers and 340 borough advisers). All Parisian elected officers sit within the borough councils. The 163 advisers sit on the Paris Council. They are those who elect the longer term mayor of Paris. It is due to this fact an oblique suffrage.

Read too Bayrou needs to vary the voting system in Paris, Lyon and MarseilleNot all districts or sectors have the identical weight. The Paris Council, for instance, has 163 members, together with 3 of 6e arrondissement, 7 of 10e and as much as 18 of 15e borough. The variety of borough (or sector) advisers accessing the municipal council is proportional to the variety of residents of the district (or the sector).

A voting system that arouses controversy

This system allowed Gaston Defferre to maintain his headquarters of mayor of Marseille in 1983 within the nostril and beard of his rival Jean-Claude Gaudin, by profitable it whereas he had 10,000 much less votes however with extra massive voters. The thought of ​​deputies supporting this reform immediately, on the forefront of which is the deputy of Paris Sylvain Maillard (EPR) is to suppress this exception in order that the Parisians, the Lyonnais and the Marseillais vote on to elect their councilor, then vote a second time to designate the advisers.

The textual content additionally proposes to decrease the bulk premium for the listing arrived on the high of 25 % as an alternative of fifty % immediately. The majority premium permits the listing on the high of the votes to imagine half of the seats, at the very least, of the municipal council.

Read too Law Paris-Lyon-Marseille: the insufferable lightness of politicsSince 2020, Lyon voters are already voting twice after they journey to the polls, to elect the Council of the Metropolis (which has 58 municipalities). This is why the deputy Jean-Paul Mattei (Modem) wished to vote an modification to exclude the capital from the Gaul of the Reformation in order to not have voters vote thrice concurrently. But he was rejected by 119 votes to 64.


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The textual content will now be examined within the Senate from June 3. In the occasion of refusal of the higher chamber, a joint joint fee would take over to determine. Reforming “in depth” the Defferre legislation, referred to as “PLM” (Paris, Lyon, Marseille), was a want of Emmanuel Macron, formulated throughout his press convention of January 16, 2024 on the Élysée.

The instances of Lyon and Marseille:
Lyon: voters designate 294 councilors (73 municipal and 221 for the 9 districts of town)
Marseille: voters designate 303 advisers (101 municipal and 202 for the 8 sectors of town)


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