Will the second round of municipal elections take place in June or in the fall? The scientific council will submit, this Monday, "during the day" its report to the Prime Minister on the holding of the poll, announced Jacqueline Gourault, the Minister of Territorial Cohesion.
"The Prime Minister will have the day the result of the scientific council and see under what conditions can happen the second round of these municipal elections," she said on Monday morning on Public Senate.
Mayors hope for second round in June
The report of the Scientific Council, on which the Prime Minister will rely to decide on the continuation of the electoral process for the cities where the 1st round on March 15 was not decisive, was expected before May 23. The decision will then be "shared" with Parliament, which will have to decide, said the minister. "All the political forces give their opinion, take part in the debate, so I find it normal that Parliament also takes part in it," she said.
Sunday, in the JDD, 36 mayors of big cities, including Anne Hidalgo (Paris) or Christian Estrosi (Nice), called to "organize the second round of municipal elections in June". Scheduled initially on March 22, the second round, which concerns about 5,000 municipalities, was postponed until the day after the first due to the health crisis.
Should the first round be reorganized?
"If the experts consider that the epidemic is in some way under control, that the protective framework of the organization of the polling stations allows an electoral mobilization and to finish the poll at the end of June, the association of the mayors of France is favorable to that ”, declared Monday on Europe 1 François Baroin, the mayor LR of Troyes and president of the Association of the mayors of France. But if the election were to take place later after the summer, François Baroin is not in favor of replaying the first round of the 5,000 communes concerned.
"As of March 15, we can (...) say that we were already in the development of the epidemic. So I do not find that there would be an alteration of sincerity "and that it is necessary to replay the 1st round," he said. The entry into office this Monday of more than 30,000 complete municipal councils, elected them in the first round, was welcomed by Jacqueline Gourault who judges it "very important in democratic terms". "We must move on to the installation of the executives which will take place between May 23 and May 28, on the ground, it was a very important expectation of the elected officials," added the minister.
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