02/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - Tony Blair has announced that the local elections that were to be held on 3 May would take place on 7 June due to the foot-and-mouth crisis (observers predicts that he will call the general elections at the same time). With everything that is currently happening, "it would not be appropriate to hold these elections on 3 May", but nor "should we indefinitely suspend the democratic process", he said on Monday.