Eyes turned to the success of the deconfinement, the executive keeps in mind another challenge: to complete the municipal election. Interrupted after the first round in the face of the accelerating coronavirus epidemic, municipal elections are still pending. If 30,000 French towns and villages elected their mayor and municipal council in the first round, there are still 5,000 in which a second round must be organized. And time is running out. In the absence of a second round before June 21 or 28, it will be necessary to reorganize municipal elections, first and second round, in cities that have not elected their municipal council. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said last Sunday that he was working on a two-turn scenario in September for these cases. " But this is only a hypothesis", He specified.
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For Emmanuel Macron, who wishes to start a new phase of his mandate and turn the page on the coronavirus crisis, the issue is important.
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