Posted on 02/9/2021 at 8:08 p.m.
The judge of the administrative court will render his decision on February 23, 2021. He is seized of a request for annulment of the municipal election by a member of the list “Act for the future of Grand-Couronne”.
Leaflets had distorted posters on Michel Fontaine’s list (Ph. PN)
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Funny hearing Tuesday February 9, 2021 before the administrative court of Rouen: a member of the list “Act for the future of Grand-Couronne” (various right) contested the result out of the polls in the second round of the municipal election in June.
“How many votes were, because of these registrations, given to the Socialist Party rather than coming back to us?” “, laments Natalis Boust, third in the list of Michel Fontaine who arrived last with only 5.14% of the vote in the second round.
In question, in addition to somewhat technical protests, leaflets affixed to the posters of Michel Fontaine in the second round which detailed: “To vote for Fontaine is to give a voice to the mayor in place. “
A disputed anonymous leaflet
However, at the time, the mayor in place, who was competing, it was the Communist Patrice Duprat, beaten on the wire by the socialist Julie Lesage (respectively 45.7 and 49.16% of the votes). The supposed message of the leaflet: a right-wing vote in Grand-Couronne has no chance of prospering and can only strengthen the outgoing Communist mayor against his socialist challenger.
Who put these leaflets, for how long were they visible? “We don’t know anything about all this”, considers the public rapporteur who suggests that the court reject Natalis Boust’s protest. “How many voices have turned away from our list to go to the Socialist Party, we don’t know? “, laments the latter. What is certain is that the participation in the ballot was quite strong, but that the list of Michel Fontaine “melted” between the two rounds. In March, this list gathered 333 votes, it had only 147 in June despite the elimination of a fourth list (that of the various left Corinne Barris, 134 votes in the first round). Weird.
The administrative court, seized of a request for annulment of the elections, is expected to deliver its judgment on February 23.
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