Faced with the difficulty of campaigning and recruiting candidates, some elected officials are calling for a postponement of the poll. Others see it as a way to do politics differently
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–Échallens’ “Ecology and citizenship” movement is campaigning with a cargo bike to meet people. Here, Patrick Miéville (cap), Jean-Christophe Boillat (khaki jacket), Catherine Carron, Marc Müller (on the bike) and little Lisa.
ODILE MEYLAN / 24 hours
Aperitifs, handshakes, discussions at the bistro, raouts… Election rituals are hardly compatible with health restrictions. Coronavirus obliges, the candidates for the Vaud Municipalities are facing a campaign unilaterally qualified as “bizarre”.
For Cyril Zoller, competing for the Aiglon parliament under the AlternativeS banner, she risks being biased by the crisis. “There is a whole section of citizens – confined or who do not have access to social networks – that we will not reach. How will they be able to choose the right people without knowing them, without even being able to approach them, because of the sanitary distances? ”
