Anne Hidalgo presents her wishes during a speech at the Paris City Hall on January 10.
The head of the Renaissance deputies, Sylvain Maillard, stated that he would submit a bill to the National Assembly in the coming weeks.
For Anne Hidalgo, a reform of the PLM law is a no. Gathered Thursday at the City Hall, several of her close colleagues launched a first counterattack against the desire of Emmanuel Macron and the presidential majority to modify the nature of the municipal election for the three largest cities in France: Paris, Lyon, and Marseille.
The announcement at the president’s press conference provoked the anger of Parisian socialists. Remi Féraud, president of the Paris en commun group within the Paris Council, sharply criticized the reform’s desire: “These are rules that are forty years old, certainly contested at the beginning, but never modified, regardless of the majority. I am not the spokesperson for the LR, but every time the president has wanted to attack the territorial communities, the LR and the left have been able to oppose it. I think that will be the case.” The deputy mayor of Paris, Lamia El Aaraje, criticized “an electoral manipulation wanted by those who destroy…
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