Anti-abstention measures studied by MEPs

Should we modernize the ballots to fight against abstention?

Voting by internet, by correspondence, compulsory… Several measures will be studied by a group of deputies from next week, and until the fall.

After the historic demobilization noted in the regional and departmental elections - 66.7% in the first round, 65.3% in the second -, the President of the National Assembly announced on Tuesday the creation of an information mission on the subject.

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Coming from all political groups, the twenty-six parliamentarians mobilized will first have to

then

, explains Richard Ferrand. . Among the avenues studied by the working group include, in particular, the extension of the hours or even the opening days of the polling stations, the inclusion of blank votes as well as the simplification of the voting methods. Close to Emmanuel Macron, the President of the Assembly does not exclude a

of the French on these themes.

Anxious to change procedures, members of the majority have already started to put forward ideas. A return of the "territorial advisor", this elected two-headed member of both the region and the department, proposed under Nicolas Sarkozy but abolished under François Hollande even before his installation? The president of the law commission of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, is in favor of it in the name of

. A generalization of internet voting, already in force for consular elections? Government spokesman Gabriel Attal supports this measure. But this project is unlikely to be completed before 2022.