Based on the recommendations of the Debré report, submitted this Friday, November 13, the government is expected to present a bill in early December organizing the postponement to next June of the departmental and regional elections initially scheduled for March. A review clause in April is also planned.
This postponement “would be the option likely to garner the broadest political support. Such a decision would be justified by exceptional circumstances.”
Indeed, the choice of June appeared more consensual than the fall, which would require campaigning during the summer and would turn out to be too close to the presidential election, the report specifies.
The report recommends that the government announce “at the beginning of December the date on which it wishes to call the voters for the general renewal of regional, departmental councilors and the assemblies of Corsica, Guyana, and Martinique.”
A bill will be presented in a Council of Ministers meeting either on December 2 or December 16 (December 9 being dedicated to the bill to combat Islamist separatism). The government’s draft will be debated in Parliament at the beginning of the year, with the law’s promulgation by the end of February.
