Departmental and regional elections: The Republicans send their recommendations to Jean Castex

Christian Jacob, Damien Abad and Bruno Retailleau responded to Jean Castex on Wednesday.

The Prime Minister had sought the opinion of the Republicans on April 1, like that of other movements, concerning the holding of the next departmental and regional elections on June 13 and 20.

In their response, the President of the Republicans and the two presidents of the parliamentary groups begin by underlining the fact that the Scientific Council did not oppose the organization of these polls before the summer and that 13 European countries did not changed their electoral deadlines.

They deduce that the French elections should be considered according to an “adapted health protocol”.

LR elected officials approve certain measures such as compulsory vaccination and the holding of a negative test for members of polling stations.

They also support the idea of ​​planning specific queues for vulnerable people.

Secondly, the three right-wing parliamentarians list six recommendations.

They propose to authorize the prefects to grant exemptions to the candidates to allow them to organize meetings as do the associations (face-to-face with health protection), to authorize the candidates to move freely in their constituency, to impose on the public audiovisual sector the opening of more important spaces of expression and debates for the candidates, to diffuse clips to ensure the promotion of the electronic proxy, to raise the ceiling of the electoral expenses taking into account the "

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postal costs

generated by banning large gatherings and finally installing air purifiers in post offices.

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", conclude the elected officials by asking Jean Castex to be also "sensitive" to the suggestions already made by the law commission in the Senate.