Amendment to rules of procedure of Île-de-France regional council threatened PCF and LFI groups. The former proposed to the latter to waive the raising of the threshold, provided that they agreed on a 50/50 distribution of speaking time.
In the end, speaking time in plenary and in the 22 thematic committees will be "distributed by full proportional representation according to the number of group members" The communist group criticised "the right and the centre which impose a further reduction of the rights of the opposition by the reduction by two of speaking times"