While the second round of municipal elections will take place on Sunday June 28, 2020, at the Elysée, we are already thinking of regional ones. Initially planned for 2021, these elections could be postponed beyond 2022, as Emmanuel Macron would very much like, and for that he would have conditioned the financial aid of the State to their support for a postponement of these regional, not wishing to pass "finance opponents", as revealed Le Figaro and The Parisian.
This political blackmail does not at all pass for the political adversaries of Brigitte Macron's husband. "It's crazy, it's a thug phrase that Balkany could have thought but not uttered. It is fundamentally problematic that the President of the Republic plans a postponement for personal convenience, because I see no reason of general interest", denounced Julien Bayou, the national secretary of EELV, in The Parisian. "The regularity of elections is a condition of democracy. He lost his hand to Edouard Philippe so his mantra is to be the master of clocks", he continued.
"We must respect the people"
"I have no reason to give gifts to the regions, because this is where most of my opposition is located", Emmanuel Macron would have exclaimed in reference to these presidents of regions who would have great ambitions, as our colleagues write. Valérie Pécresse, president of the Île-de-France region, also rebelled at this desire to postpone Of the president. "Postponing elections is not a choice of personal convenience, neither of the President of the Republic nor of the presidents of regions. We must respect the people", she said.
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