Several mayors criticize the cancellation of the results of the second round in their municipality
Two mayors from Gers and a mayor from Guyana spoke on Thursday and Friday to criticize the choice of the Constitutional Council to invalidate the results of the second round in their municipality. They sent a letter to the president of the institution, Laurent Fabius, no appeal procedure is however legally provided for to try to rehabilitate the validity of the votes.
In the Gers, the 1,974 votes cast in Eauze as well as the 894 in Nogaro were canceled because the delegated magistrate of the Constitutional Council “found, during his visit, that only one member of the polling station was present”. “The Council relies on this false and deleterious report. He says there was only one person per polling station, that’s nonsense! »declared the mayor of Eauze, Michel Gabas, to a correspondent of Agence France-Presse (AFP). “When she came, I was at the day of the deportees for forty minutes, to lay flowers in front of the memorial tomb. Four deputies were present at the polling station at that time.he specified.
The Mayor of Nogaro, Christian Peyret, added: “When the magistrate came, I was in front of the room and as president of the polling station I was discussing with the inhabitants”. “She told me that my place was inside and not in front, in a vehement, impolite tone”, he lamented. specifying to have “reported the incident to the prefect on Sunday”Michel Gabas, mayor of Eauze for fourteen years, wrote to the President of the Constitutional Council, Laurent Fabius.
In this letter, to which AFP had access, he expresses ” surprise “, “disarray”, ” incomprehension ” and invokes on behalf of the delegated magistrate “a lack of knowledge of administrative processes”a “misinterpretation, obviously tarnishing the reputation and seriousness of an entire city”. “I ask you to kindly lift the stigma and discredit that have befallen our commune and our administration”he wrote to the President of the Council.
François Ringuet, mayor of Kourou, in Guyana, also wrote to Laurent Fabiusaccording to Guyane la 1ère, to contest the decision to invalidate the 359 votes of a polling station in the city on the pretext that, according to the Council, ” the ballot was interrupted, the ballot box was opened and the ballots were transferred to a new ballot box for the sole reason that the counter of the ballot box used since the start of the ballot was not working”. ” I would like to inform you that at no time was the ballot box opened and therefore no ballot was transferred to another ballot box”writes the mayor to the Constitutional Council, hoping for a response from the institution.