No more than Nicolas Sarkozy, who mentioned it, or François Hollande, who had promised it, Emmanuel Macron will not do the proportional.
The Head of State is caught up by the schedule and, even more, by the Covid crisis.
But not only.
The reform of the voting systems will not succeed for lack of real thought.
The question has been on the table for years, but the debate has never taken place.
Everyone sticks to their arguments without trying to take into account those of the supporters of the opposite thesis.
Thus, the same event, the "yellow vests", reinforced each in its certainties.
This crisis underlined the lack of representativeness of a National Assembly which distorts the electoral photograph of France excessively.
Only proportionality would allow all currents to be represented more accurately, they say.
And they are right.
But this same crisis has underlined the need for proximity, therefore for elected representatives having a direct, almost carnal link with a territory
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