Wednesday, April 15, 2015

“Republican Ownership” Bartolone for compulsory voting – The Obs

Paris (AFP) – Introduction of compulsory voting for Claude Bartolone (PS) redefinition of the relationship between the state and Islam to Gérard Larcher (UMP): the Presidents of the Assembly and Senate have not the same vision on how to live “citizen engagement and Republican affiliation.”

After the attacks in January, Hollande had asked the two men a mission of reflection on this theme. But institutional differences on the role of the Senate led them to work separately, and Wednesday morning, they presented two separate reports to the President of the Republic.

“We have two different gateways” , found diplomatically Claude Bartolone told reporters, adding that his “quarrel” with Gerard Larcher had finally been “a good thing”, allowing “give a different nature to those documents.”

Gérard Larcher advance in his report, “the French nation, a legacy shared” four lines of thought on “the role of the school”, “the necessary control of migratory flows and access to French nationality” “France next door” in rural areas – “by doing most of the financing of urban policy and the exclusive priority neighborhoods.” – and finally “cults and the republican ideal”

“I think Islam compatible with the Republic, but it has to do with the Republic him what he did there 110 years with Catholicism,” Judge Senator of Yvelines, stressing that “the superiority of the laws of the Republic” can “be or to Accommodate or transaction.”

Claude Bartolone, however, “the feeling of belonging Republican” is or related to the mode of acquisition of nationality or religion. During the hearings and movement he made, he notes, “the subject of religious, family background or currency of the 1905 law (on secularism, ie) never appeared spontaneously “.

– Internships in neighborhoods –

If some are out of this sense of belonging, as” absent marches of 10 and 11 January, “the is not related to “religion of the one or the other,” but the fact “that our Republic is now sick of withdrawal phenomena, partitioning, of home”.

The report of the President of the Assembly, “Unlocking the commitment of the French and rebuild the civic bond” is dedicated to “youth engagement” in community life and finally to “the exercise of citizenship” with the idea of ​​establishing the “compulsory voting in all elections.”

Without commenting on the specific terms of this reform, in particular, any penalties for non-voters, Claude Bartolone believes it would be a way to “strengthen the link with the Republic,” all that “citizens could still express their dissatisfaction with the policy provides a blank vote.” Since last year, they are counted separately from invalid votes, even if they are not included in the vote.

Seine-Denis MP has total 61 proposals, the obligation to the students of the great schools make a three-month internship in sensitive areas and rural areas in difficulty, and validation of additional retirement quarters for volunteers engaging in “civic utility associations.”

Neither Gérard Larcher, nor Claude Bartolone only offer to make compulsory civic service. The first believes that “the principle of budgetary reality” otherwise, and the second, recognizing that there is currently no more candidates than positions, said it must first match “on demand.”

To prepare its report, which stated assume sole responsibility, Claude Bartolone has surrounded himself with a mission of 27 MPs of all stripes. One of them, Xavier Breton (UMP), has expressed “reservations”, particularly on proposals for associations because “one can question the independence of associations”, as well as . cost

The President of the Assembly also commissioned two surveys to the Harris Interactive company, and ensured the participation of two think tanks: the Fondation Jean-Jaurès, socialist, and Foundation for Political Innovation (Fondapol) led by Dominique Reynié, nomination contestant UMP in regional Midi-Pyrénées / Languedoc-Roussillon.

The latter is also unfavorable to say compulsory voting, which “places the burden of abstention on voters and not their representatives.”

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