US EditionParliament Finally Adopts the Reform of the Municipal Elections in Paris, Lyon and Marseille
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The reform of the Paris-Lyon-Marseille voting system, adopted by the National Assembly on Thursday, 10 July, requires the plural left to create the conditions for majority unity, argues Ian Brossat communist candidate in Paris.
On Thursday, 10 July, the deputies approved the so-called "PLM" law, which changes the voting system in the three largest French cities. Opponents of the text now turn to the Constitutional Council in the hope of censoring this reform, which has seen electoral interests take precedence, without any real substantive debate.
The so-called "PLM" bill was finally adopted by the National Assembly on Thursday. Unless the Constitutional Council censors, it changes the way in which the mayors of these three cities will be elected, as of the municipal elections of March 2026.
Le Parisien
Lyon CapitaleThe text provides for the introduction of two elections, one to elect district or sector councillors, and the other to elect those of the municipal council, in a single electoral district.
Twice rejected in the Senate, the text carried by two macronist deputies was widely voted in the Assembly through a coalition of the presidential camp, the right, the RN and the LFI.
In a process that has become rare since the new configuration of Parliament, the Government has chosen to give the "last word" to the National Assembly on the proposal for a law to reform the mode of election of the members of the Paris Council and the municipal councils of Lyon and Marseille, whereas the Senate is very much opposed to it. This text initiated by the MP EPR of Paris Sylvain Maillard was widely voted by the deputies on 10 July (th…
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