GRAPHICS – The text promoted by the Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, will come into force early 2016
. Alsatian UMP deputies who refuse the merger of their region with Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne, expressed their anger at the meeting before the final vote on the bill that redraws the map of France into thirteen regions. The text defended by Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, which will come into force in early 2016, after the regional elections in December 2015, was adopted on Wednesday evening at the Assembly by 95 votes (94 PS and a deputy of the Guadeloupe, Ary Chalus), 56 against and 11 abstentions.
Most of the UMP, IDU, radical left, ecologists and Communists present voted against the new map of the regions. Even the co-chairs of the Greens, François de Rugy and Barbara Pompili, who abstained in the first reading, have voted against this time. Rugy blasted a “controversial” project, which remains in his view “a missed opportunity”. The Nantes MP defended the autonomy of Alsace, which was passed by the Senate. Conversely, he advocated the annexation of Loire-Atlantique in Brittany, that does not want the PS chairman of the Law Committee, Jean-Jacques Urvoas. Speaker of the UMP, Hervé Gaymard has also denounced “a flawed law,” an “unreadable” reform that “the budgetary dimension has not been taken into account.”
Les Socialist deputies Alsace, Armand Jung and Philippe Bies, abstained, and tried unsuccessfully to calm the anger of their Alsatian colleagues. For a few minutes of talk time before the vote, four UMP Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin defended purely symbolic amendments. “The Socialists have never liked Alsace. We will remember “, launched in the Chamber UMP Eric Strautmann, which filed Wednesday with more than sixty UMP, an appeal to the Constitutional Council on the grounds that” you can not touch the perimeter of a local authority without having consulted prior to “and that” it is a constant tradition. “
The president of the UMP group in the Senate, Bruno Retailleau, which was favorable to” experiment “a single territorial unit composed of Alsace, Haut-Rhin and Bas-Rhin, must also file the same legal grounds an appeal to the Wise, co-signed by more than sixty senators.
The Interior Minister, who remained outside the Alsatian debate, welcomed the adoption of this card which, without being “perfect”, has its “consistency”. The reform establishes a “right of option” that allows a department to change the region without a referendum, but on a three-fifths majority of both regional councils and the department concerned.
But parliamentarians are far from finished with the construction of the territorial reform. The Senate began debate this week on the other aspect, that of the consolidation of the powers of the regions and departments, more technical, but promises to be just as controversial.
The government would like to book economic development regions and departments of social and territorial solidarity. The reform would transfer to the regions management colleges, school transportation, county roads and ports. But there is no question to remove all county councils in 2020 as originally envisaged by Francois Hollande.
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