For a “quarter of an hour town hall” close to Parisians and Parisians – Liberation

The National Assembly therefore approved this Wednesday, April 9, thanks to the uniquely heterogeneous majority alliance, the bill aimed at reforming the method of appointing the members of the Paris Council and the Municipal Councils of Lyon and Marseille: the text will now be transmitted to the Senate.

Regardless if this reform proposal has not been the subject of any prior consultation with the town hall of Paris and the town halls of the districts or sectors (1).

What do « approximations », not to say, the shameless reluctance heard in the media debate. That also the contradictions of the authors who justify their proposal by an alignment to the common rule with regard to the municipal elections while nevertheless asking for Paris, Lyon and Marseille a special regime concerning the majority premium (2).

That the « reservations » issued both by the president of the Senate (LR) who pointed out « A method problem » And the president of the National Assembly (Renaissance) who would have liked the Council of State to be seized to ensure the legality of the operation, which the carriers of the reform refused.

It is therefore up to the Council of State did not have to examine and decide on a text which affects the organization of the electoral process in the three largest cities in France.

That the technical and material difficulties also induced by the organization of two elections