Could there be friction on the line between Paris City Hall and the Macronists?
In any case, the discussions between the two parties on the reform of the method of election in the next municipal elections seem to be off to a bad start.
The boss of the Renaissance deputies Sylvain Maillard was to receive Anne Hidalgo's first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire, to begin discussions around this project.
But the right arm of the mayor of Paris decided to cancel this meeting.
He made this known this Monday evening to Sylvain Maillard by sending him a letter.
“On the eve of this meeting, we unfortunately do not have the elements allowing us to seriously address this subject, which is at the heart of the concerns of Parisians.
I therefore suggest that you reschedule this meeting once you have been able to provide us with a working document on which we could rely,” writes Emmanuel Grégoire in his missive.
An expected bill
A first meeting between the two elected officials on the subject had already been canceled last December.
The national hemicycle was then in the middle of a storm with the debates on the immigration law and the boss of the Renaissance group was forced to postpone the meeting.
At the time, Emmanuel Grégoire warned: “To be useful, this meeting cannot take place without first having the bill which we have still not received,” underlines the first deputy.
A request that obviously remained a dead letter.
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In Paris, the reform of the voting system divides
Would the cancellation of this new meeting be a tactic on the part of the first deputy to delay the progress of the bill?
“Isn't it rather Mr. Maillard who is playing for time by refusing to send the text of the bill?
», we retort in the corridors of City Hall.
Last week, the boss of the Renaissance deputies who is piloting the project announced that he wanted to table the bill “in the coming weeks”.
After the announcement by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday January 16 of an upcoming reform of the PLM (Paris-Lyon-Marseille) law which governs the voting method to designate Parisian elected officials, several members of the municipal majority had expressed their strong opposition to this project.