
A couple of minutes from the beginning of the examination in session, Tuesday April 8 on the finish of the day, Parisian elected officers threw their remaining forces within the battle. While the deputies have been getting ready to debate the invoice aimed toward reforming the 1982 electoral regulation often called Paris-Lyon-Marseille (PLM), senators and mayors of the Parisian district Les Républicains (LR) requested by press launch the withdrawal of the textual content of the agenda. In the morning, throughout the assembly of the Paris Council, a big majority of the capital’s advisers, led by the socialist mayor, Anne Hidalgo, had additionally adopted a want for the textual content to be “Immediately withdrawn from the agenda”. As for months, they’ve denounced an inappropriate reform, poorly thought out and risking to finally disconnect the central city corridor from its districts.
Nothing has performed it. Not solely was the textual content examined within the night and may, until stunned, be adopted on Wednesday, however the deputies have already ratified the primary article in session, which institutes two simultaneous distinct ballots: one to elect the borough councilors and the opposite for members of the municipal council. Today and for greater than forty years, Parisians and Marseillais haven’t voted solely as soon as within the municipal elections, to elect their borough counselors, part of which then sits on the municipal council and chooses the mayor. In Lyon, the scenario is barely completely different since, since 2020, voters are already voting in a second urn, to elect the council of the metropolis.
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