Le découpage électoral des circonscriptions législatives: Le parlement hors jeu ?

Abstract

The process of electoral redistricting in France is both little known and suspicious. Parliament was at first deprived of this procedure in favour of the government, but we are now witnessing its return in the process. The vision of a politicized and partisan procedure of electoral redistricting is very far from the complex reality of the procedure. The article puts it into perspective by taking into account the institutional constraints that govern electoral redistricting. It is based on interviews with the major actors of the procedure.