✅🏛️La commission des lois adopte en 2e lecture la proposition de loi constitutionnelle "visant à accorder le droit de vote et d'éligibilité aux élections municipales aux étrangers non ressortissants de l'UE résidant en France".
Examen dans l'hémicycle le 12 février prochain. pic.twitter.com/K4B8GdS3QS— LCP (@LCP) February 4, 2026
The Law Committee adopts on second reading the proposed constitutional law “aiming to grant the right to vote and to stand for election in municipal elections to non-EU foreign nationals residing in France”.
The vote will take place in the plenary session on February 12th.
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Since 1992, European Union nationals residing in a member state of which they are not nationals have been able to vote and stand as candidates in that state in municipal elections and in elections to the European Parliament. But the reform proposed in the initiative would this time apply to foreigners from outside the European Union. It is due to be examined by MPs on February 12th, during the Greens’ parliamentary initiative day.
Six million people would be affected by the reform, who “participate in the daily life of our cities, pay their local taxes, send their children to our schools and contribute to our economy,” according to the arguments put forward by the MPs behind the proposal. The proposal would also grant non-European foreigners the right to be eligible for the position of municipal councillor, although they would still be barred from becoming mayor.
NON au droit de vote des étrangers extra-européens aux élections municipales.
1️⃣ La stratégie de la gauche est limpide : quand on ne peut plus convaincre les électeurs, on en fabrique de nouveaux.
2️⃣ On marche sur la tête. Vous imaginez un Français voter aux municipales en…
— Sarah Knafo (@knafo_sarah) February 5, 2026
Sarah Knafo, candidate for the Reconquête party in Paris:
NO to voting rights for non-European foreigners in municipal elections.
1 The strategy of the left is clear: when you can no longer convince voters, you create new ones.
2 We’re living in a topsy-turvy world. Can you imagine a Frenchman voting in municipal elections in Algeria, Mali, or Turkey? They must be laughing at us.
3 Voting is participating in sovereignty. And municipal councilors elect senators: giving voting rights to foreigners means giving them influence over our laws.
That’s a no.
h/t KeepIt