The French understand nothing, or almost, many understood that this weekend was that the tide of the century, before the eclipse might be little sun for the Socialist Party. According to a survey by Odoxa for Parisien and QED emission of iTV, 86% of French thought the campaign departmental elections did not live up to their expectations, when 60% felt they had been misinformed. To navigate, understand the issues, the ballot method, and want to vote, one must have his vocation seriously voter in his blood. Here is a handbook of these elections, and all the news of the day.
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Departmental rather than cantonal
Parity: the pairs
The electoral map redistributed
The voting system
The vote
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First election flag at noon the turnout stood at 18.02%. This score is up from the cantonal elections of 2011 (15.7% at mid-day) but still posting a low level of participation.
Finished cantonal, here departmental
The law of 17 May 2013 drew a line on “cantonal” elections. Previously, councilors in the assembly of each department were renewed by half every three years. Now, councilors become departmental advisers. They are all elected at the same time and have a term of 6 years. The elections of 22 and 29 March will help to renew the entire departmental advisers or counselors in total 4108 and 3990 in France. Consequence of the change of vocabulary: the General Councils become County Councils
Parity and pairs
This is one of the main innovations. The invention of binomial ballot two towers. Applicants – a man, a woman – form a ticket, a “buddy”. They must therefore be elected together. It is Article L191 of the Electoral Code that defines this election: “The electors in each canton of the department at the county council elect two members of different sexes, which come in pairs of candidates whose names are arranged in alphabetical order on any ballot printed on the occasion of the election. ” The Act of 17 May 2013 imposes no loyalty rule these policies couples of a new kind: once in the past elections, they can freely dispose of their mandate and consider the break. Most often, these tandems will have a short life, the only goal is to enable more women to take part in local politics. Thus, tickets formed by an elected PS and EELV elected (Europe Ecologie Les Verts have any chance to dissolve immediately after (or before …) the election of the County Council bodies.
The electoral map redistributed
To achieve install this political innovation that is the “buddy” without increasing the number of elected officials, the map of electoral districts has been completely revised. The number of districts was halved and each canton has therefore been expanded geographically. This redistribution, vigilantly supervised by Yves Colmou, political adviser Manuel Valls, has been widely criticized on the right. Bernadette Chirac has notably suppressed by discovering that “their” historic township had been removed, pieces of its territory being attached to Tulle, historic stronghold of Hollande and left. In total, there are still 2,054 cantons.
voting system
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be elected in the first round, candidates must have met the majority of the votes cast (50%) and have been elected by at least 25% of registered voters. In the second round, county councilors will be elected by a relative majority.
But to have the right to pass the test of 1 st turn and try his luck in the second, it will have collected at least 12.5% of the votes of registered voters. This has provoked much debate. Upon initial review of the proposed law, the bar was 10%. And left and right, each expressed his fears that this threshold promotes the National Front. Ultimately, the rule of 12.5% has been adopted.
Patatras This 12.5% threshold for to block the National Front may become, in the evening of 22 March, the worst thorn that is for the PS: how many candidates manage to cross it
The vote
More than 43 million voters are asked to vote for the county council elections. But several areas, not least, do not. This is the case of Paris, both common and department: Paris City Council manages the usual prerogatives of the department. Lyonnais do not vote more: Councillors of the Lyon Métropole have departmental skills
Finally, Martinique and French Guiana, the merging of regions and departments in one community is scheduled for January 2016. . By then, the mandate of councilors of the two departments has been extended.
“The lack” of these voters may greatly complicate matters for analyzing the results of 22 March. Especially it will compare the results with those two elections … in 2008 and 2011 for the partial replacement of councilors. And finally, the prospect of a devastating abstention is likely to encourage the scores of the National Front. For a magnifying glass effect.
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