PARIS (AP) — French lawmakers agreed unanimously Wednesday to vary the best way they vote, opting to get rid of a balloting methodology that discriminated in opposition to a parliamentarian who makes use of a wheelchair as a result of it required him to face.
Sébastien Peytavie, the lawmaker who proposed the rule-change along with Yaël Braun-Pivet, the Nationwide Meeting president, mentioned the discrimination he has confronted throughout votes in parliament’s decrease home displays France’s bigger failures towards individuals with disabilities.
Lawmakers voted Wednesday in favor of the proposal — with 183 for and none in opposition to— that now clears the best way for Braun-Pivet to get rid of so-called “sitting and standing” balloting.
That’s when lawmakers both keep seated or stand as much as present which means they’re voting. It’s one among 4 voting strategies utilized by French lawmakers, relying on the circumstances. The others are a present of arms, with an digital voting field or with paper ballots dropped into an urn.
