Decryption – The Prime Minister long defends a mixed system to elect the deputies, mixing majority and proportional ballot, like what Germany does.
On the proportional, François Bayrou has the merit of consistency. Since 2002 and his first presidential candidacy, the centrist relentlessly defends a new election mode in legislative elections To better represent the country’s political currents. In the eyes of the Prime Minister, the German model would reconcile the various partisan aspirations. “He has all the advantages of the election in a constituency and all the advantages of proportional”details the head of government to Figarosuggesting that examining the text could take place in the fall, at the same time as the budget.
Among the deputies, the allusion to the Germanic neighbor makes a few eyebrows rise. “Our political cultures are completely different. In Germany, the electoral system was born after the Second World War with the need to establish a culture of compromise and prevent the instability of the Weimar Republic, which preceded the arrival of Nazism “
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