We are asked to vote for a still virtual territorial Adviser

The debate will give even more spice to the campaign of the regional, which already is missing not. A local. It will sound the death knell of regional advisers, but also General Councillors. This text, as adopted by the commission of the laws of the high Assembly, instituted in their place and place of "territorial advisors", including the first election to be held in 2014. This innovation, in article 1, is intended to désépaissir the famous "territorial Yarrow", in the same way as the completion and the simplification of the intermunicipal appearing dans the same Bill. But their difference is worlds away from the "sufficient consensus" referred to by Nicolas Sarkozy, last winter, in the margins of the Balladur Committee work.

When the right of revolution and new phase of decentralization, the left sees in this reform regressions and a text of recentralization. The fault lies for the most part this new class of elected officials who will be in much smaller numbers (3,000 instead of 6,000) regional and general councils. Elected officials "with more powers" facing the State and guarantors of "cohesion between levels", according to Michel Mercier, the Minister of the land-use planning, in which Laurent Fabius sees but hardly as a "kind of consulting Janus. On behalf of the Socialist Party, former Prime Minister and current MP of Seine-Maritime criticised yesterday a project which is also the left of the National Assembly in boiling. After the Senate last month, members begin in effect today review of the draft law reducing the length of the next mandate of the General and regional advisors to allow the territorial Councillors to make their debut in 2014. The PS prepared heavy artillery. Its representatives have filed more than 5,000 amendments against the two sections of the text, one of the four autour which reform is built. "We are asked to vote for a still virtual territorial Adviser." "It is unacceptable, yet denounced Elisabeth Guigou, MP PS de Seine-Saint-Denis.

600 amendments

Debates on this text and the local government reform project also occur before that would be considered Bill which must lay down the rules for the election of territorial advisors. The Government is having trouble to find a formula to win the majority. Is to vote in a ballot for 80 of the seats and proportional representation for the remaining 20 divides the majority, and then into the ranks of the UMP. The Elysee therefore found preferable to this site in brackets and to take it back after the regional elections.

The Senators left, in the debate that opens today and should continue through February 4, will also fight farm for the maintenance of the general jurisdiction clause of the departments and regions. The local government reform project, which is the object more 600 amendments, does more than provide Commons indeed the right to intervene in any domain. Legislation to allocate the skills of General Councils and regional councils must be considered in July 2011. Denounced by the Association of departments of France (ADF) and the Association of the regions of France (ARF), Socialist majority, this method of clarification faces also the resistance of a few chairs of departments of right.

In the end, there is little that the provisions reserved for loopback and the strengthening of the intermunicipal which, in this text, angry not. But they disappoint more than one. Intended to emerge the largest agglomerations of the hexagon on the European area, the rather avant-garde concept of metropolis has lost much of its strength over the rewrites.

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