PARIS (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.
This announcement should allow the inhabitants of Paris, Lyon and Marseille to directly elect their mayor, as is the case in all other cities.
Since a law passed in 1982, a particular voting method has governed the three largest French cities: voters elect district or sector councilors who, a third of them, sit on the city council and elect the mayor. It is therefore possible to become mayor of one of these three cities by winning the strategic sectors and being in the minority of votes.
(Elizabeth Pineau and Zhifan Liu, edited by Jean Terzian)
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