Once again, the Covid-19 hits the political agenda.
While Les Républicains (LR) - deputies and senators - had planned parliamentary days in Nîmes on October 7, 8 and 9, a decision was taken Tuesday morning in the party's strategic committee to cancel the meeting because of the circulation of the virus.
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If the parliamentarians still try to save their meeting - in particular an intervention by Jean-Louis Borloo on the theme of ecology - it would only be done at
a minimum
, on October 7 in Paris.
The president of the LR group in the Assembly, Damien Abad, had yet gone to Nîmes at the end of July to prepare for this great meeting.
For the first time in nine years, MPs, Senators and LR MEPs were all to come together.
This is not the first time Republicans have had to change their agenda.
While their summer days were scheduled for the end of August in Nîmes - already - they had been moved to Port-Marly, in Île-de-France, at the beginning of September.
Already due to circulation of the virus.
The Gard, which was first classified in the red zone, is now one of the 69 departments in “alert zone”.