The presidential movement intends to follow the health restrictions announced by the Government, even if the Constitutional Council recalled that the limits imposed on large gatherings do not apply to meetings.
Le Monde with AFP
Many leaders of the Republic (LRM) announced, Tuesday, December 28, wanting to limit the number of persons authorized to attend the electoral meetings of the majority during the campaign for the presidential election, despite the exception to certain Health restrictions guaranteed for political activities by the Constitutional Council.
To stop rising contaminations at COVID-19 in France, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Monday night, the entry into application of maximum 2,000 gauges, during events organized in interior, and 5,000 outdoors. Already in effect at the beginning of the year 2021, this restriction, like that of the sanitary pass, can not apply “to meetings and political activities”, reaffirmed the Constitutional Council November 9 . This is the case for political events organized on the street or the speeches of candidates, whose affluence can exceed the limits announced on Monday by the government.
“The constitutional rules do not allow to set gauges to political meetings. But, of course, the presidential majority will be required to respect the gauges fixed in all its events”, wrote on Twitter The President of the National Assembly and the framework of the presidential majority, Richard Ferrand. Several other parties, including the Socialist Party and the Ecologist Campaign Campaign, Yannick Jadot, announced for several weeks that they adopted tightened meeting formats to limit the risks of transmission of SAR-COV-2.
A transparent commission to organize the campaign
“Any meeting organizer must be careful, what would be a candidate who would like to access the supreme function and who would not be able to protect the people who are with him present?”, questioned Tuesday on Franceinfo Thierry Site, Member of Parliament for LRM and Emmanuel Macron’s Political Advisor, while recognizing “that there will probably be less French in public meetings at CVIV-19 hour than without Covid-19.”
Jean Castex also announced, Monday, that a commission on the organization of the presidential election would be “undoubtedly” reunited by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, in the presence of all the political formations. This commission will “grant us on rules that are obviously protective in relation to the health situation but taking into account the specificity of this fundamental activity, that is to say, finally the exercise of democracy”, he added. The General Delegate of the Republic in March, Stanislas Guerini, will represent there The presidential movement .
“The date [of the Commission] is not yet fixed,” said the France-Presse Agency the entourage of the Minister of the Interior, stating that the meeting of the Commission would inevitably have taken place after a Appointment with the President of the Constitutional Council, Laurent Fabius, scheduled for the beginning of January. The Minister tabled at the National Assembly on December 21, a bill that modifies the organization of the presidential election and the electoral code to, in particular, to facilitate the process of power of attorney, by allowing any voter to entrust his vote a voting registered on another list of electors.