Ludovic Marin \/ AFP<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThree years after the National Assembly, the Senate finally voted, Tuesday, March 11, for the generalization of the list ballot in the municipal elections. The measurement imposes parity in the communes of less than 1,000 inhabitants. The government wants the law to apply before the municipal elections of March 2026.<\/p>\n
The bill of ex-deputy Modem Elodie Jacquier-Laforge has aroused many debates and incomprehension among the senators, with very important divisions within each of the two groups of the majority alliance in the Senate, Les R\u00e9publicains (LR) and the Centrist Union. The text finally collected 192 votes against 111, obtaining a fairly rare composite majority among senators, with socialist, macronists, centrist votes and a minority part of the LR group, after endless discussions.<\/p>\n
Presented three years ago during its adoption at the Assembly as an initiative in favor of parity in the municipal councils, the bill intends to make ” jump “<\/em> The latest threshold that has resisted parity for twelve years, that of municipalities with less than 1,000 inhabitants.<\/p>\nTheir mayors are still elected by the two -round multinominal majority ballot, with a “plug -in” system that allows citizens to scratch certain names. A practice sometimes nicknamed “pigeons”, denounced by certain elected officials because it would promote an approach “Punitive”<\/em> Towards leavers.<\/p>\nThe Minister of Rurality, Fran\u00e7oise Gatel, praised a “Opportunity to get out of the famous mix which too often leads to sometimes painful interpersonal oppositions within the municipal councils”<\/em>. This text has “Vocation to enter into force on the occasion of the next municipal deadline of 2026”<\/em>she assured, even if this will require at least a new passage through the Assembly.<\/p>\nResistances in many senators<\/h2>\n Very involved at the time during the examination of the deputies, the president of the National Assembly, Ya\u00ebl Braun-Pivet, was satisfied on X of this new step: “It is time for women to take their place in local policy”<\/em>she wrote.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> Municipal elections: Ya\u00ebl Braun-Pivet proposes to impose parity in the villages <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\nThe inter -municipal association of France, which supported the text as the association of mayors of France and that of rural mayors (AMF and AMRF), praised a “Big advance for the representation of women in elective functions”<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n Newsletter<\/span> <\/p>\n” Policy “<\/p>\n
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But the resistors were strong in many right -wing senators, centrists and communists. “We will upset rules which gave overall satisfaction”<\/em> for the benefit of a “Almost unintelligible rule for our fellow citizens”<\/em>Alarmed the LR C\u00e9dric Vial, his colleague Kristina Pluchet (LR) denouncing a “Parity in forceps, neither informed nor respectful of local expectations”<\/em>.<\/p>\nIndeed, the text incorporates multiple parallel adjustments not very readable, supposed to respond to the difficulties known by many villages which lack candidates for the municipal elections. Thus, in these municipalities with less than 1,000 inhabitants, the lists will be “Revected complete”,<\/em> Even if they have two less candidates than the legal total.<\/p>\nAnd a new device “Complementary elections”<\/em> is created in the event that these small municipalities lose too many municipal councilors during mandates, with there too “Flexibility”<\/em> In the joint lists deposited because they can count between two less candidates and two more candidates than the number of seats to be filled.<\/p>\n\nRead also |<\/span> Article reserved for our subscribers<\/span><\/span> How parity fell into the National Assembly <\/span> <\/div>\n Read later<\/span> <\/button> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n The world with AFP<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Reuse this content <\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\nTm-En-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government wishes to see the text voted by senators entering into force before the next municipal elections, according to the Minister Delegate for Rurality, Fran\u00e7oise Gatel, here at the exit of the Council of Ministers, at the Elys\u00e9e, on March 5, 2025. Ludovic Marin \/ AFP Three years after the National Assembly, the Senate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5820,2011,13872,7,231,23363],"class_list":["post-105253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-apply","tag-elections","tag-inhabitants","tag-municipal","tag-municipalities","tag-parity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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