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Some point to a loose link between local and national elected officials since the entry into force of the law prohibiting the cumulation of their mandate. JACQUES DEMARTHON / AFP

We thought the debate was over. The non-cumulation of mandates for parliamentarians was voted in 2014, under François Hollande. Senators and deputies elected or re-elected in 2017 can not be, in addition, mayor or president of a regional council, departmental or intercommunal. But Wednesday, in an interview with the newspaper L'Opinion , the Minister of Relations with Parliament, the centrist Marc Fesneau, said it was good to question this rule, saying that local functions allow elected officials to keep a link with the territories. A position also defended by the president of MoDem François Bayrou for whom it is necessary to consult the French. But this opinion is not unanimous among the deputies.

Marc Fesneau does not propose to go back completely. Following a hypothesis emitted by Emmanuel Macron at the launch of the "great national debate" 15 days ago, the minister believes that for small cities only, we could restore cumulation with the aim of recreating links between local and national elected officials.

Republican MP (LR) Philippe Gosselin applauds. " I think it's important to have elected officials at shouting distance. That is to say we can cross, we can challenge, with whom we can exchange, "he says.

On the side of the Republic on the march (LREM) some say why not? When others are categorical. To change the rules of non-cumulation of mandates is not for Guillaume Chiche. " I just think that when you have a mandate, you do it full time and it takes a lot of time, " says the Walker.

An opinion shared by the Insoumis Alexis Corbière. "As a member of Parliament, I may be a bit intellectually limited, but I can not do anything else. No, but there is no debate, there is a political operation of ministers who do not know what to say to try to say that it will move and who invent the fact that there would be in this country a willingness to question the non-cumulation of mandates. It's absurd, "he says.

Some believe that the government is mainly looking for a way to appease the growing rage on the side of the Senate and its President Gerard Larcher face the future reduction in the number of parliamentarians . Restoring a limited accumulation of mandates would be a kind of compensation.