The reform of the Paris, Lyon and Marseille voting system has handed a primary step within the National Assembly | EUROtoday

The reform of the Paris voting methodology, Lyon and Marseille lastly took out the top of the water on Wednesday, April 2. After years spent in parliamentary meanders, after having been postponed a number of instances, the invoice aimed toward reforming the electoral system for the municipal elections within the three largest cities in France was accredited within the regulation committee of the National Assembly, presageing doable adoption in session subsequent week.

The textual content, which returns to the regulation “Paris, Lyon, Marseille” (PLM) of 1982 by dissociating the election of the municipal councils of those cities and that of the sector (or district) councils with two separate ballots, benefited from an uncommon transpartisan settlement.

The major creator of the textual content, the deputy (Renaissance) of Paris Sylvain Maillard and the rapporteur (Modem) Jean-Paul Mattei (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), had been thus in a position to depend on the votes of the National Rally (RN), Insoumise France (LFI) and the deputy (Socialist Party, PS) of Bouches-du-Rhône Laurent Lhardit, to cross their reform. This can also be strongly supported by the Minister of Culture-and mayor of sevene Paris arrondissement -, Rachida Dati, who introduced on Tuesday that he had resumed his card to the Les Républicains Party (LR).

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