JIt’s never easy for the Amiens Métropole parties and events unit. School and neighborhood festivals, festivals, Running the Jules-Verne… This year, it was already necessary to slip the European elections into this calendar and now the legislative elections were added after the dissolution of the National Assembly… “We are used to working in a hurry,” positive, the manager Grégory Péponas. Reinforced by the five sectors of the City, its 35 agents will have to transport voting booths, tables and chairs to the 73 polling stations in the city. Often schools that they can only visit on Friday after school and that they must have returned to the students on Monday morning. “Knowing that we will have to start again the following weekend. » Impact: no tables, chairs or podiums can be provided this weekend for school celebrations. The northern district party has even been postponed to July 20. In the elections department, it is the vacations that some agents have postponed. “We call to find assessors, explains the head of the department Karine Laurent. A polling station must be manned by three people at the opening, including a station president and a secretary. It’s the race. » And it will be until July 7.
Antoine Caux
