the results of the Paris-Lyon-Marseille reform on the marketing campaign and the group of elections | EUROtoday

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This is without doubt one of the necessary modifications within the 2026 municipal elections in comparison with earlier elections. The election of the mayor within the three largest cities within the nation, Paris, Lyon, Marseille, will likely be carried out based on new strategies. And nobody doesn’t know the political penalties that this reform, born from the legislation of August 11, 2025, will produce.

Since a 1982 legislation, often called “PLM”, the voters of those three cities, which convey collectively 2.1 million voters between them, made a two-stage alternative based on a voting technique that’s totally different from the opposite municipalities. With the identical poll, the voter designated the elected officers who sat on the district (or “sector”) council and people who additionally participated within the central council, which elected the mayor of town.

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