loi-cadre Defferre
The loi-cadre Defferre was a French framework law from 1956 to reform the French overseas territories . It is named after Gaston Defferre . Its actual name is loi n ° 56-619 du 23 juin 1956 .
The loi-cadre Defferre was an initiative of Gaston Defferre , then Minister for Overseas Territories, and the Ivorian MP Félix Houphouët-Boigny . The law was passed by the National Assembly on June 23, 1956 . It created a framework that enabled the French government to promote reform of the overseas territories by means of decrees . By 1946, most of the French colonies had been converted to overseas territories. These each maintained their own parliaments, which were elected by two electoral colleges. The first electoral college were de facto the French citizens of metropolitan France living in the overseas territories . The second electoral college was made up of the locals who had been granted French citizenship. The loi-cadre Defferre now enabled the introduction of universal suffrage on the one hand and the creation of their own governments in the overseas territories on the other. Even if the governors of the overseas territories, who continued to be appointed directly by the French central government, retained extensive political powers, the loi-cadre Defferre was an important step in decolonization .
Web links
- Loi n ° 56-619 du 23 juin 1956 in Légifrance (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 306.