The two rounds of the regional and departmental elections were marked by major dysfunctions in the distribution of electoral propaganda. Gérald Darmanin proposed this Tuesday, June 29, to quickly entrust the State with its enveloping and its distribution, so that this applies for the presidential election of 2022 and to avoid further failures.
Assailed with questions on this subject to the National Assembly, the Minister of the Interior, ” assumed ” these dysfunctions and presented « [ses] apologies to the French who did not receive this propaganda ”.
He explained that he had “Proposed to the Prime Minister” he will grab ” the parliament “ to amend the law so that this distribution of electoral documents is “Re-internalized”, that is to say entrusted to the State. “We should do it quickly enough for the presidential election”, he said.
Opening to competition and postponement of elections questioned
Gérald Darmanin mentioned “Three types of errors” behind these failures. He cited the opening of the postal market to competition in accordance with a European directive, leaving the company Adrexo to distribute half of the lots, “the postponement of the elections” from March to June due to the pandemic, and the period runs between the two rounds (one week).
Despite the requisition of “1,000 people” and the decision to entrust La Poste, after the 1st round, with a large part of the distribution, it was not possible “To raise the bar” before the second round, he regretted.
However, these dysfunctions cannot fully explain the extent of abstention during the polls, underlined Gérald Darmanin. According to final figures from the Ministry of the Interior, the participation rate in the second round was only 34.69% in the whole of France, almost 24 points less than in the second round of 2015.
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