US EditionQ&A with Gary Swing | Veteran Minor Party Candidate Advocates for Proportional Representation
- Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau threatened to resign in 2025 as Prime Minister François Bayrou pushed for voting reform in France.
- The reform aims to introduce proportional representation, which Prime Minister Bayrou supports to better reflect parties' weight after the July 2024 parliamentary elections.
- Retailleau opposes the reform, arguing it would unbalance the Fifth Republic's institutions and is more focused on blocking the RN's parliamentary gains than on resolving systemic issues.
- On May 2, 2025, Retailleau expressed "very firm and absolute" opposition, warning the reform would "unbalance the institutions of the Fifth Republic."
- Retailleau’s resignation threat presents a critical challenge as Bayrou seeks to implement the long-promised system change that could materialize within months.
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Q&A with Gary Swing | Veteran minor party candidate advocates for proportional representation
Gary Swing has run for office on minor party tickets a dozen times in three states since 1996 and is seeking the Colorado Unity Party's nomination on next year's ballot
After a one-and-a-quarter-hour interview with Prime Minister François Bayrou on the issue of the introduction of proportional representation, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, in charge of the organisation of the elections, on Monday expressed a clear opposition to any reform of the voting system for the legislatures as reported by BFMTV. The new strong man of the right stated that he would refuse to "carry" such a project, saying that "all op…
Received on Monday in Matignon, the interior minister and president of the Republican party did not exclude a departure from the government, refusing to carry this reform to Parliament, a battlehorse for three decades of the Prime Minister.
On Monday, the Minister of the Interior, and now the boss of the right, reaffirmed his opposition to the bill introducing a method of voting proportional to the legislature. He said that he had told Prime Minister François Bayrou, with whom he met for 1:15, that he "would not carry this type of reform". - Opposed to the proportional, Retailleau leaves the threat of a resignation of the government (Policy).
The Minister of the Interior stated that he would "not carry" a bill introducing proportionality, adding that "all options were open" to a possible departure of the government.
At the end of an interview with Prime Minister François Bayrou, the Minister of the Interior, in charge of the organisation of the elections, said this Monday he refused to "carry" a possible reform of the voting system for the legislatures.
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