The second round of the municipal elections should take place on June 28, and due to health regulations, the inter-turn campaigns will take place without a meeting or public meetings. The candidates therefore feel aggrieved in the face of outgoing mayors, who are more exposed during the crisis.

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In a month, the second round of municipal elections will take place, if the assessment of the health situation in 15 days allows. After two months of total stoppage, the candidates whom the first round did not make it possible to decide are back in the campaign, and some point to the risk of an asymmetrical campaign, unbalanced, with a mayor leaving on the front line during the crisis. Report in Montargis, in the Loiret.

The outgoing mayor "favored in terms of occupation of the land"

"It is he who is on the front line, we see the mayor who does this, we see the mayor who does that. And meanwhile, the opposition is confined," laments Bruno Nottin, whose union list des gauches came in second position at Montargis. For him, the coronavirus crisis has created an imbalance in favor of the outgoing mayor.

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An observation shared by Edouard Weber, who came third with his citizen list. "The mayor in place is not necessarily responsible for this imbalance but it is a reality. Over two months, he sent 46 press releases to effectively help all Montarguois to get the best of it. So this situation favored him in terms of communication and land use. "

One month campaign

An imbalance all the more complicated to compensate for as the campaign will be limited to comply with health rules: no meeting, no door-to-door, no public meetings ... The outgoing mayor LR, Benoît Digeon, denies having fired take advantage of the situation. "We were in an action of mayor, responsible. The mayor in place, everyone says that he has advantages. I can tell you that he left feathers there too because we was very very busy, it was very stressful and I admit that we are not in these calculations. "

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The in-between-round campaign, usually very short over a few days only, reminds the outgoing mayor, has already started, and will therefore allow the candidates almost a month to relaunch themselves in the electoral battle.