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Municipal 2020. The administrative tribunal of Rouen, 133 appeals were filed after the first round

The figures, bearing in mind that they pertain only to the first round of voting, but that it has already issued its verdict in a large majority of rural communes, did not show a spike in use.

They are at this day of, 133 queries within the jurisdiction of the administrative tribunal of Rouen, compared to 167 in 2014 and 161 in 2008, knowing that the voters of 74 communes of the Seine-Maritime and 42 communes in the department of theEure are called to the polls Sunday, 28 June, and that disputes may still be recorded at the start of July.

In detail, 39 protest from citizens or their elected officials, and 60 brought prefectural have been presented in the department of Seine-Maritime, these brought being introduced by the prefect, if it considers that the conditions and forms prescribed by law have not been fulfilled recalls Jenny Grand d Esnon, president of the administrative tribunal of Rouen, quoting the article L. 248 of the electoral Code. In the Eure, there is 33 protests and a prefectorial application for judicial review, which is concerned with the common Richeville where a transcription error was made, to declare a candidate elected to be wrong. Nothing salient truth, but all the same a by-election in view.

The story may lend to smile. But in many other municipalities, the arguments deployed betray a climate gradient, and to denounce instances of questionable practices, or even offensive when they are aimed below the belt.

Secret of the instruction requires that nothing filter of the premises of the administrative tribunal. But it’s a safe bet that you’ll find in the queries, a large part of the grievances usual against the drafting and distribution of leaflets contentious or even offensive, as well as against the use of municipal service in the outgoing queue.

For another part of the applicants, what are the conditions in which were conducted the operations of the first round, in the aftermath of the government communications on the health threat, as well as the closing of cafes and restaurants, which are in question. With an abstention rate of 55,34 % on the whole territory — is 20 percentage points more than in 2014 — which may exceed locally 70 %, the democracy, they explain, has not been able to express themselves really and the results are found to be distorted.

“One problem of legitimacy “

For example, it is the opinion of Charlotte Masset to Yvetot that, in addition to other grievances complained of in a memorial to be filed on the 20th march, pointing to a participation rate is very low, having allowed the outgoing mayor Emile Canu to escape a second-round registered, according to it, in a normal scenario in the capital of the country of Caux.

To Gruchet-le-Valasse also, the leader of the opposition Aida Sowof the opinion that the voters have not moved to the polls by fear of the virus, and that the election in the first round of the outgoing mayor Didier Péralta should be cancelled, even if it has raised nearly three votes in four. The Prime minister’s speech before the election has created a climate of anxiety in which the elderly, parents of young children, did not go to vote, she argues. This poses a real problem of legitimacy.

I won with 500 votes ahead. However, even if the participation had been normal, that is to say around 70 %, there would have been 300 voters more : even if all these voices were raised against me, I would have won anyway denies the elect, who regrets however, the elections were held on 15 march. It is a shame for local democracy, he acknowledges. But now, we must get back to work and move forward : the public would not understand that the increasing attention to municipal elections only to the recovery of the economy.

This is not the opinion of the members of the association “50 million voters “to which has acceded to Aida Sow, which refers to more than 3 000 use in the Hexagon and has deposited with the Council of State two priority issues of constitutionality to attack in particular the provisions of the emergency law of march 23, sacralisant the results of 15 and referring to the organization of the second round.

The constitutional Council will have to answer to this simple question summarizes the association. The election on march 15, 2020 a-t-it been free and universal ? And if it was not, the act could in sacralize the result ? Debates begin on Monday.

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