The bill is not unanimous.

Filed by Renaissance MP Sacha Houlié in order to grant the right to vote for non-EU foreigners in municipal elections, is "not a good surprise", said his Renaissance colleague Sylvain Maillard on Wednesday.

“I will not hide from you that it was not necessarily a good surprise”, reacted on FranceInfo the vice-president of the presidential group in the National Assembly.

"It's messing up the system for nothing, to be completely honest.

We must not have political objects that have not been discussed between us, ”developed the deputy from Paris.

🗣 Bill on foreigners' vote in municipal elections ➡️ "We learn to operate differently. It wasn't necessarily a good surprise," says Sylvain Maillard. "It makes the system turbulent for nothing."

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A “not positive” image

“That does not mean that each of us cannot have a political position.

(…) I can only recognize the convictions of Sacha Houlié, but on that, obviously, it makes the system turbulent and it sends back an image which is not positive, ”he continued.

Sacha Houlié, chairman of the Assembly's law commission and member of the left wing of the presidential movement, tabled a constitutional bill aimed at granting the right to vote to non-EU foreigners in municipal elections, an old demand of the left which did not succeed either under François Mitterrand, nor under François Hollande.

The Minister of the Interior “firmly opposed” to the proposal

Sacha Houlié filed this text "without request for co-signature, it's really on a personal basis", underlined Sylvain Maillard.

“It is important that we have a debate – we are going to have it at the start of the school year on immigration, Gérald Darmanin wanted it – but that we, internally, can clarify our position in relation to different subjects” , he insisted.

“We will all talk about it together.

There are no taboos in our majority, and it is a subject on which we can discuss,” he said.

The Minister of the Interior is, according to his entourage, "firmly opposed" to this proposal, which arouses opposition from the right and the far right but is on the other hand supported by the left.

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