This is what you might call a conditional consensus.
If Jean-Louis Debré proposes this Friday to the government to postpone the territorial elections from March to June 2021, it is because he noted an acceptance of this deadline by the political formations.
The file is not closed, however.
The consensus is indeed about a finding.
The difficulty, in the midst of a health crisis, to organize a poll and even more a campaign worthy of the name.
If, for the regional, the debate can take place in part through the media, the departmental - proximity poll if there is one - require contact on the ground.
With the exception of health, calendar tolerance.
The three months envisaged are therefore considered by the outgoing presidents and the parties as an acceptable but maximum time limit so as not to reduce an election to a simple adjustment variable.
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