Bayrou will engage consultations with parties and parliamentary groups at the end of April – Liberation
Is it a concrete turning point or the umpteenth episode of one of the longest Arlesian in the Fifth Republic? François Bayrou, constant defender of the proportional, And who had made a condition of his rallying to Emmanuel Macron in 2017, seems to want to move forward on the reform of the electoral voting system for the legislative elections. In an interview with Sunday newspaper, His Minister of Relations with Parliament Patrick Mignola (Modem) announced that the Prime Minister was going to hire at the end of April a « Consultation » hasVec parties and parliamentary groups on the subject.
“The Prime Minister wishes to go towards proportional to the legislative elections. At the start of the April 28 school year, he will initiate a consultation of all the parties, with the parliamentary groups ”said the MoDem vice-president in an interview At Journal owned by the far -right billionaire Vincent Bolloré. “Almost everyone agrees on the principle: it takes more proportional. It remains to determine the form: regional? Departmental? Mixed? We will have this debate ”, Add this close to François Bayrou, who suggests that this reform could be examined in the fall.
The head of government, who had announced the color from his general policy speechis a historic defender of the proportional voting system for the National Assembly. Since the establishment of the Fifth Republic, and with the exception of the legislative elections of 1986, where he had lessened the victory of the right for the benefit of the National Front, The deputies are elected by the majority of two rounds. In 2018, the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron wanted to establish a mixed system with 15 % of deputies elected to proportional, but the reform had been abandoned in full Benalla affair.
On the principle, proportional has several supports. The president of the Yaël Braun-Pivet assembly is favorable to proportional in the departments with at least eleven deputies. Before accessing Matignon, François Bayrou leaned for a proportional in all the departments. The Béarnais has often varied in its methods of application: in 2021, the modem defended two reforms, an integral proportional at the departmental level, for the lists having obtained at least 5 % of the votes; Another applied to the departments electing twelve deputies. During his general policy speech, he tied for a proportional « Registered in the territories ».
Many parties, especially on the left, want an evolution of the voting system. LFI thus deposited in April 2024 a bill For a return to the 1986 voting system, with an integral proportional at the departmental level. The Ecologists had a symbolic resolution adopted in the Senate, without deciding on the voting system, for a switch to proportional. The Socialist Party leaves divided, like Renaissance. On the right, the Republicans (LR), which thanks to the two -round majority ballot were able to keep many constituencies Despite an erosion of their electoral base, as well as the Horizons party, are opposed to it.
The RN also claims proportional, but with the establishment of a majority premium for the list arrived at the head. Marine Le Pen seemed to have returned to the question, however, Thanks to the last results of his party, which had managed to overcome the glass ceiling of the majority ballot in the last legislative elections.
