Presidential election 2022: the Republic on the march will apply the audience gauges during the campaign – archyde

Several leaders of La République en Marche (LRM) announced on Tuesday, December 28, that they wanted to limit the number of people authorized to attend majority electoral meetings during the campaign for the presidential election, despite the exception to certain guaranteed health restrictions. political activities by the Constitutional Council.

To curb the rise in Covid-19 contamination in France, Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Monday evening the entry into application of gauges set at 2,000 people at most, during events organized indoors, and to 5,000 outdoors. Already in force at the start of 2021, this restriction, like that of the health pass, cannot be applied “To political meetings and activities”, reaffirmed the Constitutional Council November 9. This is the case for political demonstrations organized in the street or the speeches of candidates, whose attendance may exceed the limits announced Monday by the government.

“Constitutional rules do not allow the setting of gauges for political meetings. But, of course, the presidential majority will impose itself to respect the gauges fixed in all its events ”, wrote on Twitter the president of the National Assembly and executive of the presidential majority, Richard Ferrand. Several other parties, including the Socialist Party and the campaign team of the environmental candidate, Yannick Jadot, have announced for several weeks that they are adopting tight meeting formats to limit the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.

A cross-party commission to organize the campaign

“Any meeting organizer must be careful, who would be a candidate who would like to reach the supreme office and who would not be able to protect the people who are with him present? “, asked Tuesday on Franceinfo Thierry Solère, deputy of LRM and political adviser to Emmanuel Macron, while acknowledging “That there will probably be fewer French people in public meetings at the time of Covid-19 than without Covid-19. “

Jean Castex also announced on Monday that a commission on the organization of the presidential election would be ” without a doubt “ brought together by the Minister of the Interior, Gerald Darmanin, in the presence of all political parties. This commission will allow “Agree on rules which are obviously protective in relation to the health situation but which take into account the specificity of this fundamental activity, that is to say ultimately the exercise of democracy”, he added. The General Delegate of La République en Marche, Stanislas Guerini, will represent the presidential movement.

” The date [de la commission] is not yet fixed “, told Agence France-Presse the entourage of the Minister of the Interior, specifying that the committee meeting would necessarily take place after a meeting with the President of the Constitutional Council, Laurent Fabius, scheduled for the beginning of January. The Minister tabled in the National Assembly on December 21, a bill that modifies the organization of the presidential election and the electoral code in order, in particular, to facilitate the proxy process, by allowing any voter to entrust his vote to a voter registered on another electoral list.