Will the territorial elections take place in June?
Or in the fall?
Or, if yet another wave of Covid arrived, after the presidential election?
The very fact of asking the question is worrying.
This makes a ballot an adjustment variable where it should be an almost untouchable benchmark in the life of the country.
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No one disputes the seriousness of the health crisis or ignores the uncertainties about its evolution.
But the arguments invoked for a possible postponement do not stand up to any examination.
The Americans experienced a campaign and a presidential election that broke participation records at the peak of their confinement.
The Netherlands have just re-elected their parliament despite a tightened curfew.
Catalonia, where every ballot is sensitive, voted a month ago and the Madrid region will do so in May.
Two German Länder renewed their instances on the date set.
Nowhere was the question of a postponement raised, nowhere were the conditions of the campaign denounced
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