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In a complete reformative mood French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said that he would reduce the number of representatives in both of France’s legislative chambers by a third. He believed that it would streamline parliament and allow laws to be drafted more promptly.
Speaking at the Palace of Versailles, Macron said reform would have “positive effects on the general quality of parliamentary work.”
“A parliament with fewer MPs and greater resources would be a parliament that is more fluid. I will propose to reduce by a third the members of the constitutional assembly,” Macron said, while stressing he was “not giving in to a sense of anti-parliamentarianism.
Macron proposed cutting the number of delegates in both the upper and lower houses of parliament by a third, “We need long-term perspective, but we must also act quickly and swiftly, therefore the shuffle between the two houses of parliament must be simplified,” he said. “The pace of designing laws must meet the demands of society,” he stressed.
Macron also said he would “this autumn” lift a state of emergency in effect since the attacks in Paris in November 2015 that killed 130 people.