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Wearing face masks, French voters return to delayed municipal elections

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo casts her vote during the second round of the mayoral elections, delayed by more than three months due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread, at the Hotel de Ville in Paris, France June 28, 2020. [Reuters]

Voters in France donned face masks to cast their ballots on Sunday in a delayed second round of country-wide municipal elections, a mid-term test for President Emmanuel Macron and his ruling party which could fail to win a single big city.

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