In June or October? We'll know in May. And so it started again for almost two months of uncertainty and quarrels over the calendar of municipal elections. Why is it so difficult to solve this puzzle? Because everything starts from a bad collective decision that nobody wants to take on.
In mid-March, Emmanuel Macron understood that it would be difficult to organize two election days when the coronavirus tsunami arrived at high speed. But he knew that the opposition parties would cry out
to scandal if he canceled the ballot. After nihil obstat from the Scientific Council, he therefore maintained it in extremis.
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The oppositions are guilty of not having demanded or supported a postponement of the elections, because only an explicit consensus would have made the decision incontestable. But the executive is also guilty of not having formally consulted the parties once radical closure decisions have been made, the last step before confinement. And guilty of having justified himself before public opinion
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