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The municipal elections of Digne-les-Bains disputed with three votes apart are finally canceled

The administrative court of Marseille canceled Tuesday February 23 the municipal election at Digne-les-Bains due to irregularities on 14 votes, de facto invalidating the vote which was played with three voices apart.

The second round of the election in the prefecture of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence was played on June 28, 2020 between five lists and in a pocket handkerchief: the various left candidate and outgoing mayor Patricia Granet (1,699 votes ) had obtained 32.49% of the votes cast, his various right-wing opponent Gilles Chelvet 32.43% (1,696 votes). The abstention reached 50.44%.

Gilles Chalvet had seized justice, affirming in particular that a certain number of signatures presented differences on the registers between the first and second round.

After investigation, the court estimates that 14 votes present “Irregularities” and “Must be regarded as having altered the sincerity of the ballot” as only three votes separated the two lists, he wrote in the judgment that AFP was able to consult.

As a result, both rounds are canceled.

Contacted by AFP, the mayor’s team was not immediately reachable to react and indicate if it would appeal this decision.

In Marseille, a result contested by the candidate LR is validated

In addition, the result of the municipal election in the 3rd sector of Marseille, won by the Spring Marseillais list led by Michèle Rubirola, was validated Tuesday by the administrative court, which rejected the appeal of the LR candidate dismissed in the first round.

Jean-Philippe Agresti, dean of the Aix-en-Provence law faculty and head of the LR list in these 4th and 5th arrondissements in the city center, was eliminated from the race for mayor of the sector from the 1st round, on March 15, failing to obtain the 10% of the votes required: he had missed 63 votes (9.69%).

In its judgment Tuesday, the administrative court of Marseille rejected one by one all the grievances put forward by the candidate of the Republicans, and in particular “The existence of a system of generalized fraud” with “Recourse to fraudulent powers of attorney”.

Likewise, according to the court, neither the collage of posters of the Printemps Marseillais outside the reserved spaces, nor the degradation of certain posters of the LR list, had “A massive or systematic nature likely to alter the results of the elections”. As for the altercation which pitted LR activists against posters of a dissident ex-LR candidate, it is indeed a question of“A serious incident”, recognizes the court, but it is “Remained isolated”.

Two other appeals were brought before the administrative court of Marseille, in two other sectors of the city, the 6th and 7th sectors, both won by the former LR municipal majority. In these two cases, the court announced its judgment by March 9 at the latest. Here too the results should be validated, the public rapporteur, whose opinion is generally followed, having each time concluded in this direction.

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