REPORTAGE
Usually only a few days are needed for the mayors to take office, but because of the coronavirus, this time it took more than two months. Saturday morning, in Chelles in Seine-et-Marne, the first municipal council was held in compliance with sanitary rules, with tables spaced from each other: "If you remove the blue-white-red tablecloths it looks more to an examination center than to a municipal council ", quipped Mayor Brice Rabaste, at the microphone of Europe 1.
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The re-elected outgoing mayor did everything to bring a republican atmosphere to the cultural center. "We tried to recreate as much as possible the conditions of a municipal council room, so you have the Marianne, the French flag, the European flag and the flag of the city of Chelles." 45 elected officials were gathered in the largest hall in the city, which can accommodate up to 600 people. The public is however not invited.
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"All the rules have been respected"
"We will have a mask, there will be gel. I leave completely reassured," said the dean of the municipal team, Michèle Dengreville, 79, who chairs the session: "All the rules were respected, the hall is very large so we were able to space each office to a meter. "
No question of dragging the length of the municipal council which is reduced to the strict minimum. But its installation became urgent according to Brice Rabaste: "Undoubtedly the period which we have just lived was not simple because we had to put a stop to a certain number of things. It is good that these municipal councils are made for that legally come out of this period of uncomfortable instability. "
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The next municipal councils will be dematerialized. The functioning of the institutions will therefore not resume its normal course anytime soon. And for the municipalities that did not elect their mayor in the first round, a new campaign is announced with the holding of the second round on June 28.