French Municipal Election Voting Laws and Controversies: All You Need to Know

2024-01-18 08:46:13

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PLM law: why do Paris, Lyon and Marseille have a different voting method in municipal elections?

Indirect universal suffrage specific to the three largest cities in France. From December 1982the voters of Paris, Marseille and Lyon do not directly elect the central municipal council and mayor during municipal elections, but their district council and mayor.

A law thatEmmanuel Macron wants to reform “in depth” in order to move to direct suffrage, he announced during his press conference on Tuesday January 16.

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9:46

“Demographic rearmament”: Tondelier expresses his “deep unease” following Macron’s remarks

“What is this story?” Marine Tondelier denounces Emmanuel Macron’s comments on the birth rate, following the President of the Republic spoke of a “demographic rearmament” this Tuesday.

“People do what they want,” replies the national secretary of the Ecologists on Sud Radio, who adds:

“As a woman, it left me feeling deeply uncomfortable.”

9:36

Learning Marseillaise at school: for Marine Tondelier, it “is neither a problem nor a solution”

Guest of Sud Radio, Marine Tondelier responds to Emmanuel Macron concerning the Marseillaise, while the president is in favor of his apprenticeship in primary school.

“It is neither a problem nor a solution, I do not see what French problems this will solve,” declares the national secretary of the Ecologists. “Above all, I didn’t understand when it was new and revolutionary, since it already exists,” she adds.

9:15

Municipal elections in Paris: Maillard indicates that Renaissance activists will choose the head of the list in 2025

Who will be the presidential majority candidate for the 2026 municipal elections in Paris? Rachida Dati? The new Minister of Culture has already declared herself a candidate the day before.

“There will be a choice of activists at the beginning of 2025 to designate our head of list,” responds on France Info Sylvain Maillard, deputy for Paris and leader of the Renaissance deputies.

9:04

Sylvain Maillard believes that the drop in the birth rate is a “strong alert”

After the left and feminist associations denounced Emmanuel Macron’s remarks on Tuesday on “demographic rearmament”, Sylvain Maillard believes on France Info that it is a “bad controversy”.

The president of the Renaissance deputies believes that the drop in the birth rate is a “strong alert”. “We must find ways to ensure that more children are born in France.”

In recent decades, the frequency of male and female infertility has continued to increase. And some 3.3 million French people would be directly affected today.

The number of births fell by 6.6% in France in 2023, falling below the symbolic 700,000 mark for the first time since the end of the Second World War.

8:49

“Minister of everything, president of nothing”: Marleix tackles Macron following his press conference

“This intervention by the President of the Republic was a little surprising,” reacts Olivier Marleix on Europe 1, two days following Emmanuel Maron’s press conference.

“We were told that the President of the Republic was going to set a course. I heard everything except a course,” declares the leader of the Les Républicains deputies, before tackling Emmanuel Macron:

“I saw a President of the Republic who was out in all directions, who was in a way minister of everything, president of nothing.”

8:35

Sandrine Rousseau judges that the government is a “vanity fair”

“This government is a vanity fair”, tackles Sanrine Rousseau on TF1, reacting to the statements made the day before by Rachida Dati, who confirmed her intention to run for mayor of Paris in 2026.

“She is there, not to be Minister of Culture but to prepare Paris’s candidacy,” denounces the environmentalist MP.

8:32

Restrictions on screens: Rousseau regrets that Macron attacks “individual behavior”

“There is undoubtedly a problem of exposure to screens” for children, says Sandrine Rousseau on TF1, while the president left the door open to restrictions or bans during his conference on Tuesday.

However, Emmanuel Macron targets “individual behavior” and “never addresses lobby regulations”, regrets the environmentalist MP. “There has been no kind of announcement regarding advertisements in children’s programs, fake news that can be broadcast on social networks.”

With this speech, Emmanuel Macron puts “still the burden on parents”, judges Sandrine Rousseau. She pleads for “collective regulation”.

8:23

Sandrine Rousseau believes that there is no “national issue” on the birth rate

“Women absolutely do what they want with their bodies.” Green MP Sandrine Rousseau responds to Emmanuel Macron, who pleaded for a revival of the birth rate during his press conference on Tuesday and announced measures to this effect such as a new “birth leave”.

“I remind you, women’s uteruses are not a state affair. Every woman is free to choose: to have children or not to have them,” she declares. Before adding:

“There is no national issue in the fact that there are children. This type of speech is speech that we saw in the worst periods of our nation when we took the women’s wombs as something of the order of public policy.”

8:11

Valls ‘feels the president has said almost everything’ before Attal’s policy statement

“We have the feeling that the President of the Republic, including in detail, said almost everything during his press conference,” judges Manuel Valls on France 2, referring to Gabriel Attal’s upcoming general policy declaration.

“I think that, in the handling of institutions (…) the distribution of roles, on this occasion, should have been better defined,” declared the former Prime Minister.

8:04

For Valls, Macron “organizes three provocations” with the appointment of Dati

Manuel Valls believes that Emmanuel Macron is “organizing three provocations” with the appointment of Rachida Dati as Minister of Culture.

The first “towards the Republicans, the right”, the political family of Rachida Dati, who was excluded from the party following her appointment.

“The second provocation is with regard to justice,” notes Manuel Valls, referring to the indictment of the mayor of the 7th arrondissement of Paris. “The third is with regard to the world of culture,” continues the former Prime Minister. “No doubt this sector has the feeling of being taken hostage.”

“This appointment is both a political coup and a candidacy that has launched” for the mayor of Paris, summarizes the former Minister of the Interior, before asking: “Where is the culture?”

7:58

Manuel Valls “welcomes” the appointment of Gabriel Attal

Guest of France 2, Manuel Valls welcomes the appointment of Gabriel Attal: “It seemed important to me that there was a new Prime Minister with [son] profile to give meaning to Emmanuel Macron’s five-year term, which was seriously lacking since his re-election,” he says.

The former head of government nevertheless admits that he is “less satisfied” and “more questioning” regarding “the government itself”.

7:51

Valls believes that the “police officers are not mistreated” but considers it “normal” that “they expect support”

The police are “not mistreated”, judges Manuel Valls on France 2, while unions in the profession are calling for “a black Thursday” to obtain “exceptional measures” during the Olympic Games.

The police have “benefited from salary increases, bonuses and job creation in recent years,” notes the former Prime Minister.

However, these police officers and gendarmes “were subjected to incredible pressure”, underlines the man who also served as Minister of the Interior. He cites the “yellow vests”, “the terrorist threat” or “the demonstrations once morest pension reform”.

In this context, “it is normal that they expect support”, he concludes, especially since they will “all be mobilized” for the Olympic Games.

7:32

“Further investigation”: Bardella disputes revelations regarding a Twitter account with hateful messages

The president of the National Rally (RN) Jordan Bardella disputes the revelations of the France Télévisions program Further investigation on his use from 2015 to 2017 of an anonymous Twitter account which broadcast racist messages, the party having commissioned bailiffs to prevent the broadcast of the extract concerned.

“You broadcast a false tweet, without even using the conditional and without specifying the denial of Jordan Bardella who formally denies being the author of these publications”, reacted this Wednesday January 17 on X (ex-Twitter) Victor Chabert, spokesperson for the party, to the broadcast of a teaser of the show on social networks.

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7:15

“Very hard”, “treated like trash”: the blues of secretaries of state who are waiting for the end of the reshuffle

A third of the workforce government of Élisabeth Borne doesn’t know what tomorrow will bring. From the announcement of the reshufflewhich only concerned full-fledged ministers, the fate of state secretaries, delegate ministers and their collaborators is pending.

“It’s morally hard. We are officially unemployed while hoping that someone will eventually call us back and tell us that we can come back. It’s still very trying,” says a ministerial advisor to BFMTV.com.

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7:02

J0 2024: police unions call for a “Black Thursday” to obtain “exceptional measures”

The officers mobilize. A group of police unions, led by Alliance and Unsa-Police, are calling for a “Black Thursday” to demand “exceptional measures” during the period of Olympic Games in return for their mobilization to ensure the security of the event.

THE police officers are invited by organizations to “minimum activity”, that is to say to intervene only “on call” but “no initiative.” Several gatherings are planned in France, the main one in Paris, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., not far from the headquarters of the police headquarters.

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6:52

Paris suspends its funding for the private Stanislas establishment, where Oudéa-Castéra educates its children

The Paris town hall announced this Wednesday, January 17 in a press release the temporary suspension of its funding from the Stanislas private establishment, located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris and in which the Minister of National Education Amélie Oudéa-Castéra sends her children to school. A decision which comes following the publication of a report denouncing homophobic and sexist “abnormalities” in this school.

Unveiled Tuesday by Mediapart, the report on Stanislas reveals problematic situations. It notes in particular “abnormalities in the application of the association contract” of the establishment with the State, such as for example the obligation to follow catechism classes, which is contrary to the law, for establishments – even Catholics – under contract.

“Drifts” also in the content of these courses, according to the report: speakers would have made homophobic, anti-abortion remarks or promoted conversion therapy, and catechists express “personal convictions which go beyond the positions of the Catholic Church, for example on abortion” or “likely to be criminalized on homosexuality”.

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6:39

Gabriel Attal speaks in front of the Renaissance executive office this evening

The new Prime Minister will attend the presidential party meeting this evening. This “will focus on current political issues linked to the reshuffle and the priorities announced by the President of the Republic”, indicates the party.

It will take place in the presence of the secretary general Stéphane Séjourné. Having become Minister of Foreign Affairs, he retained his position at the head of the movement.

6:36

Emmanuel Macron alongside Rachida Dati for his first trip

This Thursday, the President of the Republic will accompany the new Minister of Culture to the Ateliers Médicis in Clichy-Montfermeil, an establishment which “strives to bring out new, diverse artistic voices, and to support artists with unique and contemporary languages” .

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6:30

Gabriel Attal brings together ministers at Matignon

Hello everyone! Welcome to this live dedicated to political news for this Thursday, January 18. On the program in particular this morning: a “working meeting” in Matignon, organized by Gabriel Attal around his ministers to prepare his general policy declaration, scheduled for January 30.

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