Karl Olive is the various right-wing mayor of Poissy, vice-president of the Yvelines departmental council, and president of Génération Terrain.
In the current health context, it would appear irresponsible to maintain departmental and regional elections, and this for more than one reason!
Of course, the Gallic spirit will find all the good reasons to procrastinate, but please, let us finally let common sense inspire our decisions!
You don't have to be a great clerk or professor of medicine to imagine that in five months we will still be in a period of extraordinary health care.
At best, and I hope so, we will have initiated a lasting deconfinement, but from which we can easily anticipate all the restrictions and precautions that will still ensue.
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Today, while the candidates should initiate their electoral campaigns, the latter would find no attention in French people concerned by much more urgent considerations!
In a few months, our fellow citizens will have much better things to do than go to the polls, and that's legitimate!
Respect for sanitary conditions, respect for democracy!
The principle of equality between the candidates is not tenable: the challengers did not enter the campaign when they would already naturally be in a normal context.
What about the campaign accounts, while elected officials are called upon on all fronts at the moment (health crisis, state of emergency, social crisis, etc.).
Without an election date officially announced to date, the outgoing departmental and regional advisers are in the dark.
An election is serious business.
It can be prepared, it can be anticipated.
Let us not smear our fragile Republic further with precipitation and incomprehensible decisions.
And please, do not throw ourselves again into the abyss of massive abstention, which each time weakens our Republic a little more.
The second round (postponed!) Of the 2020 municipal elections saw the overwhelming victory of the abstention rate, reaching an unprecedented level of 58.4%!
Never again!
While confusion and misunderstanding still predominate, holding these two elections at the same time will completely muddle the messages.
The Constitutional Council has already ruled, in its decision of June 17, that the Covid-19 epidemic can justify the postponement of an election.
Due to this general interest motive, a simple law will postpone the elections until next summer.
The wise Jean-Louis Debré has been entrusted with a mission of reflection on the advisability of maintaining or postponing the elections, and must pronounce in December.
Popular common sense must prevail.
"I also ask the President of the Republic to disconnect the departmental and regional elections, that is to say not to hold them at the same time!"
Departments and Regions occupy a sometimes unrecognized but essential place in the governance of our country: social, education, transport and vocational training, for example, come under it.
The administrative organization of France and all its subtleties often remain a great mystery for many of our fellow citizens.
The departmental or regional election is then a time for teaching, even before defending competing programs.
The departmental election raises issues of proximity and is, in fact, the third round of municipal elections!
The regional election responds to global issues and often serves as a warm-up for the presidential election.
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If confusion and misunderstanding still predominate, holding these two elections at the same time will completely muddle the messages.
The French are attached to their territories and deserve real debates for each of these elections, without the communication of the departmental coming to disrupt that of the regional and vice versa.
We know that our fellow citizens are already struggling to get together to vote, why give them one more reason?
The stakes are high, it is a mistake to further fuel the confusion for organizational ease.
All the more so since the “
rationalization
” hoped for by the regrouping of these ballots is an illusion!
Let us first remember that the voting methods are not the same.
The Departmentals go through a direct uninominal vote, the Regional ones through a ballot of lists.
Do we really want to lose the French on the road to democracy?
There have already been in the past two polls held simultaneously (...) this involves doubling the entire system, doubling each polling station, all the equipment and human resources
I am a doer, pragmatic and optimist.
Without complaining, without cooking politically, I accomplish my mission as Mayor in the sole interest of my constituents.
I strengthen the municipal police when the State withdraws, due to lack of resources, from so-called sovereign missions.
Likewise, we deploy childcare services when the Government decides, without worrying about the costs incurred, to postpone the start of the school year by two hours.
This is my conception of my public engagement, and when I can, I do!
Let's be fair, in the past there have already been two polls held simultaneously, the most recent in 2008. It should be noted that this involves doubling the entire system, doubling each polling station, all the equipment and human resources.
In a city like Poissy, 37,000 inhabitants, it takes 270 people at each turn to organize it.
But the way the French experience democracy and engage has radically changed.
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Let us not forget that the conduct of an election in France depends largely on volunteer citizens.
Today, you join a political party online, in one click.
Modern parties are political movements without militants.
In the past, the thousand active activists made it possible to envisage the organization of such a poll.
Today, it is unthinkable!
We must therefore postpone and disconnect the next departmental and regional elections.