From Saturday, and until Thursday, the 30,000 municipal teams elected in the first round will meet to officially elect the mayors. Obviously, in compliance with health rules against the new coronavirus, which implies an upheaval of the organization compared to the previous elections.
After two months of waiting, Fanny Lacroix is impatient to take office on Saturday in Châtel-en-Trièves, in Isère. "It will not be in the usual room of the municipal council because it is too small to be able to apply the barrier gestures. We will meet in a village hall to be able to gather 15 municipal councilors while respecting the four square meters necessary", she explains.
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Karl Olive, re-elected in Poissy, in the Yvelines, also chose a large village hall. Because it is necessary to bring together 39 people, with masks, hydroalcoholic gel and, for each, an electronic voting box. "Each colleague can vote by secret ballot. And the advantage is that there is no contact on the transport of ballot boxes, on the fact of putting small ballot papers in envelopes, or during the counting" , argues the councilor. "We have the result live."
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Many municipalities have opted for a municipal council behind closed doors, but not in Au Portel, in Pas-de-Calais, where Olivier Barbarin has taken over the local team's basketball hall to have an audience. "We will be able to accommodate around a hundred people. Of course there will be masks available, hydroalcoholic gel. 100 people in a room of 4,000, each will be comfortable." Whether open to a limited audience or behind closed doors, the vast majority of municipal councils will be broadcast live on social networks.