the interior ministry terminates its contract with the company Adrexo

The Interior Ministry announced, Friday, August 13, to have terminated the contract that linked it to the company Adrexo, responsible since 2020 for the distribution of part of the electoral folds. In a press release, Place Beauvau justified this decision by citing “Unacceptable dysfunctions noted in the delivery of electoral propaganda during departmental and regional elections” of the month of June.

On July 22, the senators of the law committee denounced a “Unprecedented fiasco”, raising the “Questionable choices” of the Ministry of the Interior and the use of temporary workers from Adrexo. According to La Poste and Adrexo, before the second round of voting, 26.6% of voters would not have received any propaganda for the departmental elections, and 40.3% for the regional ones. Data judged “Dumped” by the Law Commission.

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The envelopes entrusted to the prefectures

Following a framework agreement concluded by the State, in December 2020, the distribution of electoral envelopes was entrusted to Adrexo for four years, in seven regions and 51 departments. Shared with La Poste – until then in a monopoly situation, the allocation of part of the electoral distribution to a private service provider occurred following the transposition of a European directive on the opening up of the postal service to competition .

The Home Office also said that “The envelopes would henceforth be carried out by the departments of the prefectures”, in accordance with a proposal by Gérald Darmanin, in order to avoid new dysfunctions before the presidential election of 2022.

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The World with AFP