Lyon Metropolis, universal direct suffrage, metropolitan councilors, intermunicipal metropolises, EPCI, territorial collectivity, municipal councilors, mayors power
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The Lyon Metropolis adopts universal direct suffrage for metropolitan councilor elections, differing from other intermunicipal metropolises.
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[...] The maintenance of the targeting system in intermunicipal metropolises justified by their nature of EPCI The intermunicipal metropolises that could be assimilated to the Lyon Metropolis, because created by the same MAPTAM law, do not follow the same voting system for the election of their metropolitan councilors. In fact, on 05 April 2018, the Senate voted without reserve the proposal of law of Mireille JOUVE abrogating the article 54 of the MAPTAM law. This article required the legislator to define before the 1er In January 2019, the modalities of the election of metropolitan councilors by universal direct suffrage were established. Parliamentarians preferred to maintain the existing targeting system in municipalities with over 1000 inhabitants. [...]
[...] On the other hand, the Lyon metropolitan area does not compose with the same division, inasmuch as it is carved out into intermunicipal constituencies. The same logic cannot therefore be applied to it. B. The transition to universal direct suffrage in the Lyon Metropolitan Area justified by its nature as a territorial collectivity As of the 2020 elections, the Lyon Metropolitan Area votes by universal direct suffrage to elect its metropolitan councilors. Thus, voters will vote for two distinct lists and by two distinct ballots to elect municipal and metropolitan councilors. [...]
[...] What are the causes and consequences of the transition to a universal direct vote for the Lyon metropolis? The 2020 Lyon Metropolis Elections In accordance with Article 3611-1 of the General Code of Territorial Collectivities: « A particular status collectivity, in the sense of Article 72 of the Constitution, named "Lyon Metropolis", in place of the Lyon Urban Community and, within the previously recognized territorial limits of the latter, the Rhône department." While the term "Lyon Metropolis" easily refers to other French metropolises, created by Law No. [...]
[...] They will potentially be able to manage strategic files for their municipalities at the metropolitan level and thus have a certain amount of power over them. However, it should be noted that the Metropolitan Council is not the only assembly. There are several instances aimed at associating municipalities with the action of the metropolis. Thus, the metropolitan conference, chaired by the President of the metropolis, is a conference of mayors. It is responsible for developing a metropolitan coherence pact to coordinate the exercise of municipal and metropolitan competences. [...]
[...] On the contrary, they demand a global policy in the management of territories such as Deputy François-Michel LAMBERT, « it is no longer possible to refer to the mayor ». According to him, the diversion « is responsible for alliances just to satisfy the interests of such a who do not make a metropolitan strategy. ». This voting system could therefore dispossess mayors of their full power. B. The disempowerment of the mayors of the Lyon Metropolis of their power In as much as municipal councilors are elected by proportional list voting or majoritarian list voting, municipal councils are composed of several colors of the political chessboard. [...]
