The high jurisdiction had been seized of an order-Suspension. The decision will be rendered Tuesday.
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The Council of State, once again – that had already been the case, in 2020, before the municipal elections -, was led to decide, Friday, June 3, on the list of nuances assigned by the ministry of The interior to candidates for the legislative elections of June 12 and 19. The High Administrative Jurisdiction had been seized of a summary summons deposited by Insoumise France (LFI), Europe Ecologie-les Verts (EELV), Generation.S, Generation Ecology, The New Democrats, the French Communist Party (PCF), The Socialist Party (PS) and the new Ecological and Social People’s Popular Union (Nuts).
The object of litigation: the circular dated May 13 addressed to the prefects. The eighteen “nuances” were listed there that the candidates can be stored. Among these, only one is allocated to candidates invested by together! Presidential majority, whatever their attachment formation – La République en Marche (LRM), MoDem, Horizons or others. On the other hand, for the candidates presented by the cloud, they are assigned a separate nuance according to whether they are invested by LFI, the PCF or the PS, the others being mixed in a global nuance “environmentalists”, which agrees at the same time candidates attached to the clouds and other environmental candidates without any report, such as those, for example, of the animalist party.
“Obvious discrimination”
“What shocked us is obvious discrimination between the fate reserved for the Nuts and the presidential majority grouped under the term together!”, Defended, at the hearing, the applicants’ lawyer, M e Frédéric Thiriez, deploring “a prejudice caused not only to the Coalition NUPES but in the general interest”. “The purpose of the color chart is to ensure the readability of the results for the voters, he explained. The cloud will be illegible when the results were announced. How to analyze the political sense of the ballot if we disregard the NUPS? “
For the ministry, represented by the director of public freedoms and legal affairs, Pascale Léglise, the color chart must both “present the results of the elections and the evolution from one election to another”. “It is a question of comparing comparable things. We must not confuse a lasting nuance and an alliance of circumstance,” she said. To support her remarks, she said that the statutes of the Federation together! had been deposited on May 10, with a single funding association, and that it is in its own name that it has a speaking time in the official audiovisual campaign. “In one case, a unique association. In the other, an alliance of circumstance between parties which each have independent funding and speaking time. It is not a real shade in its own right. This is reason of this different treatment, “concluded the director.
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