The National Assembly adopted on Tuesday, July 9, the bill prohibiting the accumulation of mandates by parliamentarians. The text will go to the Senate this fall. If approved, as everything suggests, its implementation will result in revolutionizing the political power map and hierarchy in the Alpes-Maritimes.
In fact, the vast majority of Azurian leaders are, as they say in these cases, “cumulards” (office holders of multiple positions).
And, if we are to consider the new electoral law for General Councillors with the rule of gender parity, which will be applied during the 2015 cantonal elections, we can already and easily imagine that many changes will occur.
It will certainly be an opportunity to oblige major local parties to renew, which will undoubtedly allow the rise of new talents who will flourish on the benches of the various assemblies at both local and national levels, for the greater good of political life!
The bill prohibits Deputies and Senators from holding, as of the next legislative elections of 2017, the following positions: Mayor or Deputy Mayor, President or Vice President of an intermunicipality, a mixed syndicate, a departmental or regional council, a semi-public company or “any other territorial collectivity created by law,” such as territories. They will also not be able to preside over the assembly of French citizens abroad, a local public institution, or a public housing office.
The deputies also adopted a bill imposing the same prohibitions for European parliamentarians, starting in 2019, meaning not the next European elections, but the following ones.
Thus, the date of 2017, which corresponds to the end of the current terms, will have been chosen by the deputies.
