New French Prime Minister François Bayrou is considering changing the voting system for the National Assembly, he said in his first government statement on Tuesday.
The 73-year-old has long been a proponent of introducing proportional representation in France.
The country currently uses a first-past-the-post system, usually with two rounds of voting, which means only the votes for the winner in each constituency count towards the allocation of seats.
Candidates from small parties often do not even make it to the second round of voting and many in France complain that parliament is not very representative.
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