The second round of municipal elections is postponed in Guyana due to the coronavirus epidemic, but it is being held on June 28 in Mayotte, the overseas departments and the interior announced on Monday.
After consulting elected officials and state officials in the two departments, and "in view of the epidemic dynamics of a different intensity", the government decided "to postpone the municipal elections in Guyana for all the seven municipalities where a second the tour was scheduled for June 28, "and" to maintain, at this stage, the municipal elections in Mayotte, in conditions of maximum health security, especially during the campaign, "the government said in a statement.
While Emmanuel Macron definitively confirmed Sunday evening the holding of the second round in the rest of France, the government's scientific council Covid-19 had recommended, in its opinions of June 8 and 14, "special attention to the risks associated with the electoral campaign and the second round of the ballot in these two territories, "recalls the government.
The second round maintained in Mayotte
Guyana passed Monday to stage 3 of the epidemic, announced the prefecture and the Regional Health Agency. Monday, this French territory of South America, bordering on Brazil where the epidemic explodes, had 1,326 people tested positive, 11 patients in intensive care, 59 hospitalizations, 3 deaths and 552 patients who can be considered cured. The number of positive cases doubled in eight days.
Many elected officials, including the president of the Territorial Collectivity of Guyana, had asked for a new postponement of the second round, which was initially to take place on March 22, one week after the first round.
Results of municipal elections in Guyana
Mayotte recorded on its side Monday 2,310 positive cases, 42 hospitalizations including 13 in intensive care, and 29 deaths, but with an evolution which seems to mark slightly the step (+12 cases in twenty-four hours). In this Indian Ocean territory, the elected officials were in favor of maintaining the second round, like the deputy LR of Mayotte Mansour Kamardine, who estimated that a postponement would be “largely misunderstood” by the population.
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