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Mixed vote: what threshold of MPs for proportional representation?

2021-01-25T19:34:47.605Z


DECRYPTION - To elect 25% of the deputies in the proportional way would be to introduce this voting method in the 12 departments designating 12 deputies and more.


Will we one day talk about the Ferrand-Bourlanges system?

If the executive is preparing to give up changing the voting method for legislative elections, the MoDem and several LREM personalities have worked to the end on a proposal that can be adopted on time.

Among them, the president of the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand, and the deputy of Hauts-de-Seine Jean-Louis Bourlanges, who join on a mixed system, combining the passage to the proportional in the most populated departments and the maintaining the majority in the less populated departments.

Why a mixed system?

For a fundamental reason and a reason for efficiency.

Emmanuel Macron never spoke of integral proportionality to elect deputies, as was the case in 1986, but of a “dose”.

In the first bill, presented in May 2018, but whose discussion was interrupted by the Benalla affair, it was decided to elect 15% of deputies on a national list, on an Assembly

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Source: lefigaro

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