The new President of the National Assembly mentioned measures such as a “dose of proportionality” in the legislative elections, the non-accumulation of mandates over time or even the reduction in the number of parliamentarians.
Non-accumulation of mandates and their duration, dose of proportionality: the new president of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet hoped on Sunday that the site of an institutional reform “globalcan open at the start of the school year.
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“We must not rush but it is a site that I hope to open quickly. I think that the start of the school year will be the right time to start the workof a cross-party commission desired by Emmanuel Macron during the presidential campaign, she indicated on France 3.
This reformwill take place if we reach consensus“, she pleaded. Parliamentarians now have many “technical elements” and “it is now necessary that politically each group expresses its democratic vision» and that the «focal pointsare identified.
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On the background, “I don’t see institutional reforms piecemeal, because our institutions form a whole, so we need to discuss our democratic life in a global way“.
Quoting a “proportional dose“, to which she is “favorable“, the non-cumulation of mandates over time, the non-cumulation of mayor-deputy, the duration of mandates, the drop in the number of parliamentarians, she underlined that “all this cannot be independently, we must have a global vision of what we want as a democratic life in the 21st century in our country“.
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She also noted that if a reform of the institutions “is not an emergency for the French, we must associate them with this democratic reform“.