Emmanuel Macron advocates a reform of the voting method in municipal elections in Paris, Lyon and Marseille


PARIS, Jan 16 (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he was in favor of reforming the voting method in municipal elections in the cities of Paris, Lyon and Marseille.

During a major press conference at the Elysée in front of around 200 journalists, a week after the appointment of Gabriel Attal as Prime Minister, the Head of State declared that he wanted “the government and Parliament to be able to decide to an in-depth reform of the Paris-Lyon-Marseille law”.

“The only thing I want for Paris is that a voter can have the same rights and count as much in Paris as in Amiens, Besançon or elsewhere,” he declared. (Writing by Zhifan Liu, edited by Jean Terzian)












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