The municipal elections in Paris, unprecedented elections | EUROtoday

Lhe municipal elections in Paris already mix a number of eccentricities: they haven’t even existed for 50 years – earlier than 1977, the capital was administered by the State – and the mayor is the one councilor in France accountable for each a metropolis and a division which additionally sees its powers entangled with these of the area (for transport) and people of the State (for safety). As if this weren’t sufficient to single out this election, among the many roughly 35,000 others going down on the similar time, the Parisian vote of March 15 and 22 brings its share of unknowns which makes it unprecedented and extra open than ever.

Main new function: the voting technique. Thanks to the extraordinary lobbying of the mayor (Les Républicains, LR) of seven^e district, Rachida Dati, who sees it as a strategy to facilitate her accession to Paris City Hall, parliamentarians adopted in 2025 the reform of the legislation generally known as “Paris, Lyon, Marseille” of 1982. Since that date, the voters of those cities have been referred to as to vote for his or her district councilors, a few of whom then sat on the municipal council and elected the mayor. From now on, they are going to be requested to vote twice, for his or her district and for the central city corridor. An unprecedented course of since, in 1977, the one municipal district in Paris earlier than the reform, district city halls didn’t exist.

In a bond of interdependence with the Town Hall, baronies have been established through the years, as within the 15^e district, the place Philippe Goujon (LR), additionally dean of the Council of Paris, has reigned, since 2008, over a territory which has extra inhabitants than Le Havre (Seine-Maritime). Until then, the candidate for central city corridor needed to maintain these native elected officers to make sure his election; with two separate ballots for the district and for City Hall, the hyperlink is damaged.

Leap into the unknown

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