On the right as on the left, their objective for the start of the school year: to push back the non-accumulation of mandates

Definitely, among some parliamentarians, the pill of non-cumulation of mandates still does not pass. It does not matter that the law, which must apply from the next legislative elections, is acclaimed (3 out of 4 French people support it), they do not disarm. A fight that goes beyond traditional partisan boundaries. As spotted Libération et The cross, deputies and senators from the right but also from the left, took advantage of the torpor of August, just before going on vacation, to table bills aimed at postponing the application of the law of February 14, 2014 prohibiting the accumulation of local executive functions with a parliamentary mandate. If these bills must be examined, it will be when parliament returns.

In the Assembly as in the Senate, the friends of Nicolas Sarkozy have slipped two proposals in order to prepare "the reconciliation of national and local elective mandates", on the Members' side, or allow "a gradual entry into force of the prohibition for a parliamentarian to exercise a local executive function", side senators. In both cases, the objective is the same: to delay the non-accumulation as much as possible by postponing its application to 2020 for mayors and 2021 for the presidents of general and regional councils. Senators LR explain as follows:

"It should be noted that these implementation rules are not satisfactory. Indeed, the deputies, in June 2017, and the senators, in September 2017, will lose, without an option period, the local executive function that they would exercise alongside the parliamentary mandate (...) while having knowledge of the reform, the voters nevertheless renewed their confidence in them to administer a territorial community.

An argument that struggles to hold water, as rightly noted The cross, since the entry into force in 2017 of this law passed in 2014 had precisely been chosen to allow elected officials to anticipate and make their choice between the mandate they wanted to keep... 

A relative of Valls also attacks the non-accumulation

Nicolas Sarkozy had made known his hostility against this reform. As early as 2015, he announced his desire to remove it in the event of a right-wing victory in the 2017 presidential election. Nothing surprising then. But alongside right-wing elected officials, Socialist and radical left senators have also tabled their own bills with exactly the same goal. 

Registered on August 8 at the office of the presidency of the Senate, the text signed among others by Luc Carnouvas, a member of the Prime Minister's inner circle, and Samia Ghali, senator from Bouches-du-Rhône, stated that "it seems essential to take into consideration new and fundamental elements resulting from the territorial reforms adopted by the Parliament after the law of February 14, 2014, reforms whose content had not been announced by any program and even in disagreement with previous announcements that could have formulated the executive".  And to put, like their right-wing colleagues, the voters first, those who "would hardly understand such changes during the application of these multiple territorial reforms." Here again, the right solution would be to shift its application. 

A very nice back-to-school project in perspective...