The second round of municipal elections will take place on Sunday June 28 in more than 48,000 municipalities, more than three months after the government’s decision to postpone the poll until the very beginning of the Covid-19 wave in France.
– The municipal councils remain to be filled in approximately 15% of the municipalities and in the districts and sectors of Paris, Lyon, Marseille. Some 16.5 million people will be called to vote, or about 39% of the French electorate.
– 157,632 candidates are running in 4,820 municipalities where the councils were not fully elected in the first round, on March 15. However, due to the pandemic, the second round was again postponed in the seven communes of Guyana concerned.
– The candidates will compete in triangular in 786 municipalities and in quadrangular in 155. This is less than in 2014, where there were 986 triangular and 207 quadrangular. Five lists will be present in 12 municipalities. The official campaign, which began on June 15, has ended since Saturday morning. A significantly longer delay than the few days that usually separate the two towers.
– The municipal councilors are elected for six years, according to a majority and proportional voting system which depends on the size of the municipalities. In the first round, the councils were fully elected in 30,143 municipalities where the mayors and their deputies took office in late May.
– In constant decline for more than thirty years in municipal elections, participation collapsed to 44.6% in the first round, compared to 63.5% in 2014. Voters massively deserted the vote for fear of the pandemic. To bring them back to the polls and allow elderly people in particular to vote, the rules for voting by proxy have been extended, allowing the same proxy to have two proxies instead of one. People who, because of the Covid-19, could not travel, can ask their police or gendarmerie to come to their home to collect their proxy.
– At the end of the second round, the first meeting of the new municipal councils must be held between Friday 3 and Sunday 5 July to elect the mayors and the assistants.
– This June 28, voters will also elect the community councils of some 1,100 communities of municipalities, metropolises or agglomerations, where the first round was not decisive. The new teams will take office by July 17. The role of the municipalities, and especially of the inter-municipalities which constitute the large urban concentrations, will be essential for the economic recovery at the end of the health crisis, the local authorities representing approximately 70% of public investment, in particular in the construction sector. .
– By July 18 at the latest, the councils of all the communes and groupings of communes should therefore be renewed and installed – with the exception of Guyana -, marking the end of the municipal cycle.
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