The case would be heard at the highest peak of power: "Emmanuel Macron has decided. If the sanitary conditions allow it, he now wants to purge this municipal history as quickly as possible, ”slips a heavyweight from the majority. For a long time, the hypothesis of organizing a new ballot in September, even October, for the 4,922 communes which did not elect their mayor as of March 15, nevertheless had the favors of the Élysée Palace.
“We were in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis. So talking about a second round quickly when we learned every day that the virus was killing hundreds of people, it seemed ridiculous, far from the emergency, "explains a collaborator, while Matignon stayed on the date of May 23 ( and the eagerly awaited scientific council report on the state of the epidemic) to make a decision.
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The Prime Minister - himself on waivers in Le Havre - would also have made a reason. According to our information, Matignon will even seize this Wednesday the scientific council to request a specific report on the organization of the second round. The conclusions must be made, at the latest, at the very beginning of next week. "We will not wait until the 23rd to decide, there is now the need to clarify the matter quickly," said a ministerial adviser.
Especially since the pressure is increasing every day a little more on the executive to speed up the calendar. Including in the opposition ranks. "If we are able to open schools, colleges, high schools, shops, I do not see in the name of what the second round could not be held in June," argued Christian Jacob, Monday morning on France Inter . Provided that "sanitary conditions allow it," said the boss of LR.
30,000 municipalities will install their council by May 28
Same story on the socialist side, but also associations of elected officials. Urban France, which represents the big cities, demanded "the holding of the second round as soon as possible". “The arguments are correct. There is no reason why democratic life should be prevented from functioning at the moment when the country begins its deconfinement ", abounds a LREM deputy, aware, also, that" nothing allows to know if the conditions of organization of a return to school vote will be better than in June. It may even be the opposite. ”
In short, no more waiting. Already Tuesday, Edouard Philippe announced that the establishment (postponed because of the crisis) of the municipal councils for the 30,000 municipalities which had elected a list in the first round, could finally take place by the end of the month, "No later than May 28".
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