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Municipal. Beginning Monday, the official campaign for the second round

In exceptional situation, exceptional measures. The official campaign which opens on Monday for the second round of the ein municipal, on the 28th of June, will take place in a setting totally unique. A campaign ” without contact “, a term outstanding, subject to strong constraints sanitary to prevent the spread of the Covid-19.

The governmentt has strengthened the rules of caution : no meetings, no door-to-door, to respect the distance and physical port of the mask. The campaign will be a lot on the social networks and in the media. Visioconfs, operations phoning, massive sending of SMS to voters supplanteront encounters on the markets. Of public meetings can be organised in the green area in establishments open to the public, but with a limited number of participants. There will not really campaign. It is a brake to bring people to the polls, there is not the phenomena of mobilization potential that is normally in the elections, says Bruno Jeanbart, deputy director general of the institute OpinionWay.

A campaign almost entirely on the internet

Usually limited to a few days between the two tours, the campaign will span on two weeks. Some incumbent mayor even a lot shown from the first round by multiplying the interventions to manage the day to day of their municipality during the health crisis. Which might lead to the use of the results of the election to challenge the results.

For the rest, the rights and obligations of the candidates are broadly the same as in the previous seasons. In all municipalities, the lists are assigned to the display panels installed close to the places of voting and the posting on the election outside is prohibited. A single circular to promote an application, a same format for all lists, can be sent to the voters for the entire constituency.

Since June 8, the radios and televisions must ensure the fairness of the speaking time of the candidates and their supporters. Their statements are transmitted to the superior Council of audiovisual (CSA) which control the good application of the device. A sensitive project with the multiplication in the coming days of debate scheduled in particular on the regional channels. Less stringent than the equality of the speaking time, which applies during the presidential election, the fairness is evaluated according to a set of factors, such as the representativeness of the lists, the contribution of each of them the animation of the electoral debate or the indications of the polls.

Reimbursement of campaign costs increased

The ceiling for reimbursement of campaign expenses will be increased from 20 % in view of the special conditions. The candidate is reimbursed for his personal contribution in the limit of 47.5% of the ceiling for each constituency. In the communes of 9000 or more inhabitants, the heads of list have had to declare a fiscal agent responsible for collecting the funds and incurring the expenses. They are subject to the control of the national Commission of campaign accounts and political funding (CNCCFP) and their ceiling depends on the number of inhabitants of the municipality. For the candidates in the second round, the deadline for filing accounts is set for 11 September.

The dissemination and comment of any survey in relation to the election are prohibited the day before and the day of the vote. During these two days, it is also forbidden to distribute any propaganda message of election by handbills, circulars, or electronic means.

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