ELECTION OF MAYORS BY MUNICIPAL COUNCILS ELECTED ON THE FIRST ROUND IN FRANCE

Édouard Philippe announced that they will take office on Monday, May 18.

After two months of waiting, the 431,739 municipal councilors elected in the first round on March 15, 2020 will officially take office on Monday, via a decree issued on Friday.

Between 23 and 28 May 2020, they will be able to elect the mayor and his deputies in 30,139 municipalities, out of around 35,000 in total.

An ordinance presented Wednesday in the Council of Ministers will detail the strict sanitary modalities recommended for the meeting of the municipal councils by the scientific council, guaranteeing in particular the respect of physical distancing. Elected officials will thus be able to meet outside the town hall in the event of a room that is too small.

Each municipal councilor may hold two proxies, and the quorum will be set at one third of the council's staff.

By May 23, the scientific council must give another opinion on the state of the epidemic and the possibility of organizing the second round and in the approximately 5,000 remaining municipalities.