Speaking at the Palace of Versailles on Monday, Emmanuel Macron said France was ready to embark on a “radically new path,” announcing sweeping changes to the country’s voting system. Deutsche Welle reports.
Macron proposed cutting the number of delegates in both the upper and lower houses of parliament by a third, saying it would have “positive effects on the general quality of parliamentary work.”
“A parliament with fewer MPs and greater resources would be a parliament that is more fluid. I will propose to reduce by a third the members of the constitutional assembly,” Macron said, while stressing he was “not giving in to a sense of anti-parliamentarianism.
“We need long-term perspective, but we must also act quickly and swiftly, therefore the shuffle between the two houses of parliament must be simplified,” he said. “The pace of designing laws must meet the demands of society,” he added, citing digital copyright and security as areas where rapid legislative responses were needed.