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Parliament 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 government decided to ignore the hostility of the Senate, which had rejected the bill for the second time the previous day.
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.
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