The Prime Minister will set up the authority to examine the modalities of organization of the April, in consultation with all the candidates.
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She had to be driven by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin. Finally, according to the information of the world, the Commission responsible for examining the modalities of organization of the presidential election of 2022 will meet under the auspices of the Prime Minister, Jean Castex.
Given the sensitivity of the question and the difficulties posed by the crisis related to the epidemic of COVID-19, it is to the chief of the government that the caregivers of political parties, as well as the candidates declared in the presidential election. This meeting will take place Tuesday, January 11, at 11 am, in Matignon.
This instance “of consultation on the conducting conditions of the presidential campaign in the current epidemic context” will meet by videoconference around Mr. Castex, therefore, in the presence of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, and the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran.
According to Matignon, “its objective is the establishment of a dialogue instance to ensure in the coming weeks that the presidential campaign and the voting operations can organize, under the control. Jurisdictional bodies, in the best conditions given the epidemic context “.
On December 27, at the end of the Health Council and the Council of Ministers, Jean Castex announced that Mr. Darmanin was going to meet a commission soon for the various candidates to “agree on rules that are obviously protectors compared to the health situation but take into account (…) of the exercise of democracy “. In other words, having an instance of dialogue in order to answer the thorny question: how to ensure the smooth running of the campaign and the vote, scheduled for April 10 and 24, in the middle of the epidemic crisis?
Result in “a consensus”
According to the government, this commission will allow “to raise the very technical questions that arise”, as how to use the electoral propaganda, the organization of polling stations. The idea is to associate all political formations with these reflections, as has been the case upstream of the regional and departmental elections, in June 2021, which had already been organized in a tense sanitary context. The executive thus adopts an approach of “consultation” with the parties, highlighting his will “to impel the collective discussion, under the authority of the Constitutional Council”, responsible for chaping the organization of the presidential election, explains Matignon . With the aim of achieving “a consensus” on the terms and conditions of the vote with all the candidates. While Emmanuel Macron should be a candidate for his re-election, the state’s summit wants to show transparency, in order to lift any suspicions. And avoid any controversy on this sensitive subject.
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