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Covid-19: is France "the only country in Europe" to postpone its elections?

2021-03-25T19:22:51.697Z


THE VERIFICATION - France has postponed its regional and departmental elections to June because of the epidemic. Is this an exception, as the leader of MPs LR says?


THE QUESTION.

Campaign in slow motion, candidates in uncertainty and voters kept away from the polls ... The political class remains suspended from the fate of regional and departmental elections.

Already postponed from March to June 2021, the ballot could be again: the Prime Minister has promised that he will rely "

strictly

" on the report of the scientific council, which must be submitted on Sunday.

Read also: Covid-19: the track of a postponement of the regional and departmental elections studied

The leaders of the main political parties oppose such a prospect.

It would be

"very surprising that France is the only country in Europe not to be able to organize elections,"

said Wednesday, on Public Senate, the leader of LR deputies, Damien Abad.

Would France be an exception?

CHECKS

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Faced with the Covid-19 epidemic, France is not alone

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Source: lefigaro

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