Provost parliamentary work turned out to be quite meager in 2024. By confusing the motions, postulates, interpellations and written questions, only 27 interventions were tabled in one year. That doesn’t seem like much for 41 elected officials and their dozen deputies representing more than 7,000 residents. Not counting the covid years, this figure is the lowest in ten years. While the number of interventions fluctuated between 32 and 35 between 2015 and 2018, it exploded in 2019 with 74 filings.
In 2022 and 2023, more than forty interventions were submitted (41 and 44). For comparison, the Legislative Assembly of Lémont, also having 41 elected officials but representing a population almost twice as large as in Moutier, saw 36 interventions arrive on the table last year.
Half the job alone
Among this relatively low activity of the Moutier City Council in 2024, one party stands out. However, it is numerically the weakest. The Young Progressives of the Left (JPG), a formation created at the end of 2022 and including one elected official and one substitute, submitted almost half (12) of the 27 interventions. “We are perhaps doing a little too much and the others not enough. Less than 30 interventions is insufficient for a city of our size”, reacts Aitor Meyer, deputy of the JPG, who submitted four texts during the last Council city.
For example: a written question on the support of transgender students in Moutier schools, a question on the working conditions of apprentices in the municipality, a motion requesting the establishment of access for people with reduced mobility in schools. schools or even an arrest relating to the appointment of Roland Moritz as head of the administrative police.
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