Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet won a battle with the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo. The Constitutional Council censured, Thursday, August 6, a provision of the law on territorial reform, which, according to the right, was to prevent the election of Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet on the board of the metropolis of Greater Paris. The “Wise Men” justified their decision by the “disregard of the principle of equality before the suffrage” , it said in a statement.
“This decision seems obvious in the light of democracy and confirms the irregularity of the electoral practice devised by the government to rule Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet Presidency of the metropolis of Paris “, wrote the applicant and Patrick Devedjian in statement. The government originally objected to the amendment, has for its part welcomed the “almost all of the law Our 3 th component of the territorial reform” has been validated by the Constitutional Council.
The Board was seized in July by deputies and senators Republicans who challenged the provisions of the seat allocation arrangements relating to law advisors the metropolis of Greater Paris and their election procedure
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A government amendment controversy
The case begins in May, when the Senate began consideration on second reading of the bill on the new territorial organization of the Republic (Our). An amendment was then tabled by the government to review the electoral system and avoid a meeting of the Grand Paris bloated. If senators rejected the amendment, it was finally voted in second reading in the National Assembly.
One Parisian representative would be elected by the Council of Paris, the others would be designated throughout each borough, the list system of proportional following the rule of the highest average. But M me Kosciusko-Morizet is elected in the 14 th arrondissement, where the left is very clear majority. The election result in “four out of four advisors PS” Grégoire de Lasteyrie concluded Mayor (LR) Palaiseau, close to the MP for the Essonne.
Council found that the provisions on the allocation of councilor seats “lead to that in several districts the ratio of counselors to the metropolitan population of the district deviates from the average recorded in Paris a measure which is manifestly disproportionate “, he said in a statement
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A setback for Anne Hidalgo
If it is not the source of the amendment, Anne Hidalgo approved it. According to the mayor of Paris, he takes into account the weight of the boroughs and pluralism of political forces in the capital. M me Hidalgo had proposed an alternative voting system, rejected by Matignon, but also relied on the boroughs, nor does it allow the election of his former adversary. “NKM [Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet] is not about me “ in May defended the mayor of the capital.
Asked June 30 with Le Parisien , M me Hidalgo even asserted that it was an amendment “truly democratic” before starting a dig at his political opponent
“What is not democratic is that a person who was not elected in a town can enter through the window and take a responsibility for which she was not elected. “
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