Brice Hortefeux may live a difficult day end

Brice Hortefeux may live a difficult day end. The Interior Minister defends tonight the Senate local government reform project on which he knows to expected firm foot. On the left that the beats in breach since its origins, but also and especially by the centrist group whose voices are essential to the Government to reach a majority. Its representatives hear indeed nothing to give him the mode of election of the future territorial advisors, the core of this Bill. Supporters of a dose of proportional, senators centrist Union contributed to remove text adopted by Parliament at first reading article establishing the fptp in both rounds. This provision was struck out in the Committee on laws, centrist senators who joined those of the PS, the CRC - SPG (Communist and left party) and the RDSE (in radical left-wing majority) to oppose.

In order to recover in second reading in the Senate, the Government will have to file an amendment to this effect, either transit by a UMP Senator. Which, in both cases, looms as a very high risk operation. The centrist group in the Senate, which had been to vote in first reading the principle of a ballot with proportional share, badly lived his disappearance to the Assembly. "Our confidence in the Government is strongly altered", considers Hervé Morey. And Senator (centrist Union) of the Eure surprising that no Minister since not entered officially in contact with his training to move forward on this issue. The centrists agree more that never go on the offensive by presenting an amendment establishing a joint election mode said "German". The voter would have at its disposal two types of bulletins, each to designate the candidate of their choice to the electorates in both rounds (for 80 of the seats), the others to decide on a list of candidates selected by proportional representation (for 20 of the seats).

Threats of "rebellion".

The Government will have as hard to do with the UMP Senators whose positions on the election of the territorial Councillors are not exactly the deputies. "The reform of the voting system is not consensual", pointed out Saturday Jean-Pierre Raffarin in the Figaro Magazine. To the point that the former Prime Minister and Senator UMP believes that the upper house "could be rebel" to vote the territorial reform. Members also feel misheard by the Government on other issues.

"The clause revoyure on local finances poses a real problem within the UMP." Christine Lagarde had promised to revisit the issue on June 15. "Commitment has not been held", indicates a Senator of the majority. The modus operandi adopted by members of Parliament to clarify the skills of the departments and regions has been questioned by the commission of the laws of the Senate. It also removed the map of distribution by regions and departments of the territorial councillors called 3.471 successor in 2014 to 6,000 General and regional advisers. The UMP must propose a new system based on criteria of constitutionality and leading to the creation of 3.482 territorial advisors.

Other key provisions of the reform, including the establishment of cities and of common news, the completion of the intermunicipal, the merger of departments or regions, make less than vague that not to raises the debate on the mode of election. On this last point, lack of agreement in the Senate, nothing would prohibit members of second reading to reintroduce the single election in two rounds of the territorial adviser whose creation, it was passed by both houses. For the majority, the objective is to have a law of decentralization in September.