As the Covid-19 continues to spread in France, the government has entrusted Jean-Louis Debré with the task of considering a possible postponement of the regional elections, scheduled for next spring.
If the entourage of Emmanuel Macron evokes "a principle of health reality", the opposition, it denounces "electoral tampering".
Regional and departmental elections, will they take place?
The government has entrusted the former president of the Constitutional Council, Jean-Louis Debré, with the task of carrying out consultations on a possible postponement of these elections scheduled for next spring.
But the opposition fears the decision has already been made.
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"A principle of health reality"
On the one hand, there is what the Élysée says.
Emmanuel Macron, guarantor of the institutions, officially advocates maintaining the regional calendar - the regional ones in March -, but his entourage warns: "there is a principle of health reality", slips one of his relatives.
In the current context, who can be sure that a campaign and then a vote will be held correctly?
"We already have no idea where we will be in December," warns an advisor at the Elysee.
A politically uncomfortable situation.
"Whether we maintain or cancel, we will be blamed," worries a minister.
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Do not fall back into the trap of controversy
On the side of the opposition, we denounce an "electoral tampering".
"LREM does not have a candidate, it suits him well to push back," castigates an executive at Les Républicains.
The current vagueness clearly plays against the outgoing barons who see this election as a launching pad before the presidential election.
"Xavier Bertrand, the regional is his primary," decrypts an elected representative on the right.
"He's going to have to review his schedule."
For Emmanuel Macron, the challenge is above all not to fall back into the trap of municipal polemics, and not to be accused of using the Covid-19 pandemic to modify the electoral calendar to his benefit.