The Government plans for a second round of municipal elections (for the communes that require it) on June 28 or … in January 2021, as the option of September, previously mentioned, was not retained.
Received by the Prime Minister, the leaders of the right and left opposition parties acknowledged the situation and did not express themselves, preferring to bide their time.
A parliamentary debate will take place soon, with a consultative vote.
It is clear that no one wants to commit, especially after the statements from the Scientific Council, which emphasized that the electoral campaign should be well-framed from a health security perspective.
It is better to leave the hot potato to the Government.
This charade is neither very dignified nor very constructive. Once it is acknowledged that a decision of this nature can only be made in an uncertain context, the most responsible attitude is for each parliamentarian to formalize their position with a vote.
This would prevent the right and left opposition leaders from resembling the weathervane they were in mid-March when, after suspecting Emmanuel Macron of wanting to postpone the first round, they criticized him for maintaining it.
Their attitude is reminiscent of what the German playwright Bertolt Brecht has one of his characters say in the famous “The Threepenny Opera” (1928): “first comes food, then morals.”
Metaphorically speaking!
