Conseil de Paris

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The City Council of Paris

The City Council of Paris ( French : Conseil de Paris ) is the advisory body for the city of Paris , the capital of France . It has the powers of a municipal council ( conseil municipal ) and also those of a départementrat ( conseil départemental ) for the Département de Paris , according to the so-called PLM law ( Loi PLM ) of 1982, which governs the administration of P aris, L yon and M arseille re-regulated. Paris is the only local authority in France that is both a municipality and a department.

The Mayor of Paris chairs the City Council and thus has the powers of the Mayor and the President of the Departmental Council. There are currently 163 council members. (As of June 2020)

history

The city of Paris is very old, but its city council is still very young, less than half a century old.

In the past, Paris and the surrounding area were almost always administered by the highest French polity : before the revolution of 1789, by the crown; then by a prefect (for the Seine department ) appointed by the government. There used to be a mayor of Paris only for short periods of time during the 18th and 19th centuries.

From 1977 to 2019 Paris was a municipality and a department at the same time . Both local authorities were administered by the same institutions, the (then) City Council of Paris, with the Mayor of Paris as the Council President. The same body met, either as a city council or as a dèpartementrat ( conseil général / conseil départemental ) depending on the subjects dealt with in the council meetings.

On February 28, 2017, the National Assembly passed a law which stipulated that the tasks of the municipality and the département were merged into a new local authority, the City of Paris ( Ville de Paris ). The law came into force on January 1, 2019.

The current Paris administrative organization still contains traces of its past as the administration of the Seine department . The Paris Police Prefecture ( Préfecture de police ), to which the fire brigade of Paris is also subordinate, has jurisdiction, for example, in the areas of fire protection and rescue services for the area of ​​the petite couronne (little crown or halo) of Paris, i.e. the three departments bordering Paris ( Seine-Saint-Denis , Hauts de Seine and Val de Marne ). The Police Prefecture is directly subordinate to the French government. Paris does not have its own city police, but it does have its own municipal enforcement service.

Electoral system

The city is divided into 17 constituencies , which represent the 20 municipal districts ( arrondissements municipaux ). In these constituencies, the members of the city district councils ( conseil d'arrondissement ) and the city council ( conseil municipal ) are elected.

For the 2020 local elections, a single constituency called "Paris Center" was created for Arrondissements 1 , 2 , 3 and 4 .

No district elects fewer than 10 members of the council for the arrondissement or 3 city council members, none elects more than 40 members of the city district council (conseil d 'arrondissement) or more than 14 city council members. In total there are 354 members of the city district councils and 163 city council members. A selection of the members of each city district council - around half of the seats in their respective city district council, namely the candidates in the top field of the respective electoral list - also represent the members of the city council, which is called City Council of Paris (Conseil de Paris). The city council in turn elects the mayor of Paris one week after the local elections, with an absolute majority of the city councils required in the first round; a simple majority is sufficient in any third round of voting that may be required.

The city district councils and city councils are elected in a list election with rigid lists in the system of the Romanic majority election with bonus mandates for the list with the most votes. If a list achieves a majority of at least 25% of the eligible voters in the first ballot , it receives half of all seats from the outset, then the remaining half of the seats are distributed proportionally to all lists including the winners list according to the D'Hondt method , who received at least 5% of the votes. If no list has received at least 25% in the first ballot, there will be a second ballot one week later. All election lists that received at least 10% of the votes in the first ballot participate in the second ballot. The remaining lists with at least 55 of the votes in the first ballot can enter into links with other lists, but they do not have to do this. In the second ballot, a simple majority is sufficient to receive bonus seats. This electoral system means that a list can win an absolute majority of the seats in the Council without having received an absolute majority of the votes.

The council members for the 2014-2020 city council

The table below shows the 163 councilors elected in the 2014 Paris municipal elections .

City councils by party and arrondissement
Arrondissement Seats Majority faction opposition not registered
PS EELV PCF DVG PRG UMP UDI Modem DVD PG
1. 1 - - - - - 1 - - - -
2. 2 1 1 - - - - - - - -
3. 3 1 - - - 1 1 - - - -
4th 2 2 - - - - - - - - -
5. 4th 1 - - - - 2 - - 1 -
6th 3 - - - - - 2 - 1 - -
7th 4th - - - - - 3 1 - - -
8th. 3 - - - - - 3 - - - -
9. 4th 1 - - - - 3 - - - -
10. 7th 4th 1 1 - - 1 - - - -
11. 11 5 2 1 1 - - 2 - - -
12. 10 4th 1 2 1 - 1 - 1 - -
13. 13 6th 2 2 1 - 1 1 - - -
14th 10 5 1 1 1 - 1 1 - - -
15th 18th 2 - - 1 - 12 1 2 - -
16. 13 1 - - - - 8th 2 1 1 -
17th 12 2 - - - - 7th 2 - 1 -
18th 15th 6th 3 2 - 1 1 - 1 1 -
19th 14th 7th 3 2 - - 2 - - - -
20th 14th 7th 2 2 - - 2 - - - 1
total 163 55 16 13 5 2 51 10 6th 4th 1
Majority (91 seats) Opposition (71 seats) Not registered (1 seat)

See also

Web links

Commons : Conseil de Paris  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b LOI n ° 2017-257 du 28 février 2017 relative au statut de Paris et à l'aménagement métropolitain (1) . République française. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  2. ^ A b Élections municipales à Paris: comment ça marche? Website of the City of Paris, last accessed February 13, 2020
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Election Preview: France Municipal Elections 2014 - Part I . Retrieved January 4, 2017.
  4. ^ The text of the electoral law Article L260 at Legifrance last accessed on November 7, 2014
  5. ↑ | archivedate = 10. November 2013 Annuaire des élus - Paris.fr