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Presidential: Castex launches a forum for dialogue with the parties

2022-01-11T13:47:05.198Z


Prime Minister Jean Castex set up on Tuesday January 11 a forum for dialogue with political parties so that the electoral campaign of the ...


Prime Minister Jean Castex set up on Tuesday January 11 a forum for dialogue with political parties so that the presidential election campaign can take place under the best conditions despite the health crisis.

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Three months before the first round of the presidential election, the head of government organized this meeting by videoconference with the heads of political parties, the candidates declared for the presidential election, in the presence of the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin and the porter. word of the government Gabriel Attal. While recalling that he "

did not intend to interfere in the work of this commission

", Jean Castex announced to the participants that the Councilor of State Jean-Denis Combrexelle would chair this body, said his entourage. Jean-Denis Combrexelle has also underlined that he had "

no power of decision but of concertation

", specified the same source.

Questions from participants focused in particular on the possibility of having two proxies, an option that Gérald Darmanin rejected, recalling that this exemption which had been put in place during the regional and departmental elections of 2021 had not been renewed by the Parliament in view of the presidential election.

They also concerned the taking into account of campaign costs linked to Covid-19, which requires for some of the larger rooms and the distribution of masks.

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In this regard, La France insoumise, the movement of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, called for “

an increase in the reimbursable ceiling

” of the expenses of presidential candidates “

to ensure the expenses related to the health situation

”. The candidate RN Marine Le Pen wondered for her part about "

the conditions of application of telework to the employees of a presidential campaign

" and on "

a case law of the Campaign Accounts Commission which does not reimburse the flocking of buses

“, Said its campaign director Christophe Bay. According to him, Gérald Darmanin would have deemed "

admissible

" the arguments on teleworking and would be ready to "

shed light on

»The President of the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Funding (CNCCFP), Jean-Philippe Vachia, on the second subject.

The Prime Minister announced on December 27, at the end of a Defense Council, the establishment of a commission on the organization of the presidential election, the 1st and 2nd rounds of which are scheduled for April 10 and 24. .

A similar consultation took place ahead of the regional and departmental elections in June 2021, when the epidemic situation was also worrying.

For the time being, and relying on constitutional law which protects freedom of assembly, the executive has ruled out imposing any restrictions on political meetings, returning the responsibility to the organizers.

Source: lefigaro

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