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The mucul of pandats. No, the multiple directorships. Nothing to do. Unlike pandas, dippers, cumulative, are not endangered. Nothing prohibits or so little .

The cumulonimbus cloud is not

Benoît Hamon (PS) is regrettable. He who says on Twitter he had not had a good Sunday, has also lost his remuneration. It could thus, if confirmed in practice what he had said during the campaign, turning to the private sector as it did before MEP in the previous legislature. The fall is often hard for non-elected, and especially the non-reelected. The best protection against the vicissitudes of democracy is the multiple directorships. This is the meaning of that section to try to see things more clearly from the quota of MEPs elected in France Sunday, June 7 In my opinion, the cumulonimbus , the n uage accumulation , darkens representativeness. The issue here is not about the accumulation of income (which is capped anyway), an interesting topic , but compared to the Annex of the effectiveness of our elected officials. To optimize the work of data collection, I am also interested in the age and sex of MEPs. All tables is available here in Excel format or here in PDF format.

Parliament Scrub

French MEPs are not considered particularly present in the European Parliament. These are not the only ones. In their defense, they often indicate that MEP's work is not just to sit in the sessions. Be. But it is not drying sessions. No accounting method of inquiry can not fully satisfy the quality criteria of the presence of an MEP. Nevertheless, the results are altogether inspiring as can be read here .

The idea of ​​this paper is to see whether multiple directorships can be a hindrance to the exercise of its function as an MEP. It is also to show if there are differences between the various political movements in terms of presenting their candidates. If I have my own political ideas (my beliefs lead me to the center), I left made ​​to derive an a posteriori analysis. If errors in the tables, thank you so indicate. Also if you think about you may be relevant to be shared with the readers of this article. I invite you to do it directly to my email address mcabon@gmail.com or via the comments below this post.

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Results.

Breakdown by sex.

While the perfect parity is required to validate the filing of the list, then no special requirements to political parties to present as many women as men top the list. In addition it is the voters who choose to make that voice. The results are therefore to be considered with these parameters in mind. It does. There are four French MEPs of more than MEPs. 52.8% against 47.2%. Two parties send Brussels more women than men: the modem (66%) and environmentalists (57%). Among the "major parties", the PS is the bad boy of the class with only 42% of MEPs.

Age distribution.

The average age of the French MEP is 53 years and 7 months. It is consistent with the average age of the French deputy.

The average age of the MEP sortan t was 58 years. This is the average age qu'auront our new MEPs in 2014 (as a parliamentarian or not they will take another year every year until the end of their mandate). No rejuvenation of the Euro-French political class. The situation is different for different movements. If Jean-Marie Le Pen, octogenarian, raises the average of his party, other political movements are consistent with the overall average except for the Greens with a little under average age of 50. The youngest being Damien Abad (UMP-NC) and 29 years. Should push a little further the question, but one may wonder the influence that age may have on policy thinking when we elected a fifty and one is elected by their fifties or more given the low turnout of young people in these elections.

Multiple directorships.

37 French MEPs combine their role as MEP with another term, or 51% of moonlighters. Sometimes with the simple function of alderman, "for the local presence", sometimes with significant executive (president of council, vice president of local authorities ...).

The only movement to be below half of pluralist is the environmental movement with 14%, two of its 14 MEPs combine their mandates with other functions. They are both in the district of south-east.

Among the government parties, the UMP leads with 2 / 3 of its MEPs who accumulate, followed by the PS with 57%.

For environmentalists, the reason lies in the recency of their organization, federation of interests and environmentalists figures, so the youth policy of their candidates. But also a line of thought that rejects the idea of accumulation, "stop the hyper mandates," which no-show of the outgoing Onesta MEP , recognized by his peers for his work in the European Parliament is the for example.

This is the opposite for the UMP and the PS who preferred due?, presenting local figures , to be charged locomotives of the list. It also gives the MEPs that are already imagining the schedules and calendar overloaded. Time will tell if these Stakhanovites representation will have time to lay the reports involved in their duties. Among the outgoing MEPs is Philippe Morillon (UDF) which was the hardest working relationships with 22 members to its credit.

Survey methodology.

I took the results of European elections on Sunday, April 7 on eight French constituencies.

Assignment. Elected officials are assigned to parties or movements that led the campaign. So we will not see is the new center recorded under the label UMP, same for environmentalists including many elected officials are not members of the Greens or the Left Front in which no distinction is made according to their membership or not the party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon or the French Communist Party.

Age. Age is recorded according to the year of the election less year of birth. Take for example a person born in 1973, 2009-1973 = 36 years. Even if the person was born after June 7 This is for practical reasons to avoid having to seek the precise date of birth, without the Chinese zodiac sign or the ascendant, nor the positions of the moon at the time of birth.

Mandate. Walking through the biographies of the candidates, were recorded mandates they hold to election day. These mandates are divided into office when the Executive is elected member, mayor, deputy mayor, vice president of the General Council, Regional Council, the Urban Community. I do not count the important functions within a political party or ancillary functions dependent on their mother's money (example: Chairman of the Board of a hospital for a big city mayor). Other mandates, such alderman are not classified as executive mandate. The case is unique to Paris, where counselors Paris councilors are also due to the dual status of this community.

Limits.

I considered Michel Barnier and Rachida Dati Hortefeux, ministers at the time, or have resigned their office of Minister (Michel Barnier and Rachida Dati in the next revision) or their function as an MEP ( Hortefeux ) . In the latter case, I took the one that followed in the order of the list. Jean-François Kahn, he had indicated during the campaign that he would resign from his post if his list was not elected two. Duly noted. It also remains to be seen what will be Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Senator and MEP, two incompatible functions under the Act.

In the weeks and months ahead, politicians will eventually resign their mandate of MEP or some of their functions to local or otherwise acquire others, partly because of regional and cantonal elections of 2010, or the opportunity for local by-elections. The data tables provided will be amended accordingly.

Two newly elected officials will represent France if the Lisbon Treaty enters into force. Indeed, France had 74 seats in parliament according to the European Treaty and the recent elections have provided 72. The choice should return to the French parliament to decide on the identity of the two additional representatives should not upset the political balance or nor the balances in terms of gender distribution, age and cumulative.

It would be good to look at these results in terms of the mandate earlier and compared with those of our neighbors to identify trends specific to the French representation. Concerning the French Parliament, a survey by the New York Times showed that 85% of French parliamentarians had multiple functions with another elective office against 20% for comparable democracies such as Italy, Germany and Great Britain. From there to explain absenteeism Parliamentary ...

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