The decision to maintain the first round of municipal elections on March 15 was "based on scientific grounds" and is "perfectly assumed", Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Tuesday.
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Asked in the middle of a controversy caused by the words of former Minister Agnès Buzyn on municipal elections, he stressed that the scientists consulted "told us that by respecting the safety instructions they could take place without causing harm to the voters". "You cannot, when you are a political leader in a democracy, decide alone the day before or three days before an election to interrupt a democratic process".
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