the President of the Assembly wishes that “anyone who wants to stand for election” has a “clean record”

Guest of franceinfo this Wednesday, Yaël Braun-Pivet calls on Emmanuel Macron to push further the requirement of exemplary behavior from elected officials. The President of the Assembly indeed wishes that “anyone who wants to run for an election” have a “blank locker”. “This is a subject that I would like to put on the table in the reform of the institutions that the President of the Republic will carry”supports the deputy of Yvelines.

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In effect, “it could be enshrined in the Constitution, it would be very clear and I think the French would actually be happy with it because they expect us [des élus] a strict example”. She recalls that this measure was a promise of the candidate Macron, in 2017. “We had tried to do what is called the B2 blank, that is to say ‘blank criminal record when you are elected or when you want to run for an election“, she explains. It could not be enshrined in law because of “constitutional limits”.