2023-05-29 15:58:40
Rarely has a session of the Ile-de-France regional council attracted so much attention. On Wednesday May 31, the first region of France, made up of 209 councilors and chaired by the elected Les Républicains (LR), Valérie Pécresse, should adopt a modification to its rules of procedure that are anything but innocuous. This aims to raise the threshold needed to form a political group within the regional assembly from seven to ten. If adopted, two left-wing opposition groups – that of La France insoumise (LFI), made up of eight elected officials, and that of the Communist, Ecologist and Citizen Left, of seven elected officials – would therefore be automatically dissolved.
Since the officialization, on May 9, of this proposal of the regional majority which has every chance of being voted, the two threatened groups have been issuing press releases in series to denounce “a cowardly and violent method against the democratically elected leftist opposition”. A decision perceived as an attempt to prevent these elected officials from updating “bad shots” of the majority on the right “against public services”. “This is unheard of in the history of communities. An unprecedented democratic anti-democratic coup”protests Céline Malaisé, president of the communist group, seeing it as a kind of regional coup d’etat which aims to ” We gag, decapitate us ». “This abolition would lead in particular to the disappearance of all speaking time in session for elected officials from these two groups, but also the dismissal of employees in their service. It’s not acceptable. »
On the right, we remain impassive, we assume and we sign. “There is an attempt by LFI and others to mess things up and import the methods of the National Assembly to the regional council whose debates have, so far, with a few exceptions, always been serene, retorts the right-wing mayor of L’Haÿ-les-Roses (Val-de-Marne) Vincent Jeanbrun, president of the majority group. We are subjected to incessant verbal abuse, there are reminders of the permanent rules. There is no more respect, but an escalation of radicalism between several left-wing groups intoxicated by what they saw in the Assembly. »
More fundamentally, the majority in seats finds that it is in the minority in terms of speaking time: “Because of the fragmentation of the groups, the opposition monopolizes 75% of the speaking time, it’s grotesque, continues Mr. Jeanbrun. We want to put the kibosh because we want to defend democracy, precisely by allowing the debates to take place in the best conditions. » While offering compensation such as the reduction of their own speaking time to shorten the sessions.
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