France: the opposition wind up against the postponement of regional elections

The regional elections are scheduled for next March.

REUTERS / Pascal Rossignol

Text by: RFI Follow

2 min

Should the regional elections in March be postponed for health reasons?

While it has just decreed a curfew for 20 million French people, the executive opens the door.

At the request of Emmanuel Macron, a commission made up of all the political forces will look into the problem.

Six months after the abstention records broken in the first round of municipal elections, the oppositions cringe.

Publicity

Read more

“ 

Democracy is sacred.

Stop attempts at manipulation.

 For the outgoing regional councilor of Ile de France the Republican Geoffroy Didier, Emmanuel Macron is wrong to launch the debate.

The big difference with the municipal authorities is that we have now understood that we must live with the virus 

", understand that we must vote with the virus.

A right wind up and for good reason, one year before the presidential election, the regional ones promise to be decisive.

For at least two outgoing region presidents and candidates for re-election, Xavier Bertrand and Valérie Pécresse, they will even serve as primary for 2022. Postponing them would completely reshuffle the cards.

Same anger on the side of the National Rally.

Cited to be head of the list in the Grand Est, Virginie Joron is against any postponement.

We are ready

 ", launches the MEP who would see in a modification of the calendar "

 a choice of the president according to his interests. 

"

But beyond the political postures, the

second wave

worries.

Seven department presidents have also alerted the Prime Minister in a letter revealed this week by

Le Figaro

.

To read also: France: the left in dispersed order for the regional elections

Newsletter

Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox

I subscribe

Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application

google-play-badge_FR

  • France

  • French politics

On the same subject

France: the left in dispersed order for the regional elections

France: cleaning at the National Gathering before the regional ones

Ideas

Olivier Grenouilleau: "Our small homelands, regional identities and central state in France, from the origins to the present day"