Constitutional Council received 91 appeals following legislative elections 2022

The institution announces on Friday that it will examine “within a very short time their admissibility (…), so as to rule out from the coming weeks the appeals which would be manifestly inadmissible”.

Le Monde with AFP

it is less than in 2017. The Constitutional Council recorded ninety-one appeal following the legislative elections of June, of which it will examine the admissibility “within a very short period” in order to rule on ‘Possible irregularities, he said on Friday 1 ^er July in a press release . The number of appeals filed this year is significantly lower than two hundred recorded five years ago.

At the end of the ten -day period available to candidates and voters to file an appeal, the council will examine “within a very short time their admissibility (…), so as to rule out from the coming weeks those who would be obviously inadmissible “.

“The other appeals will be judged as soon as possible, after a contradictory procedure which will be able to take into account the future decisions of the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Funding concerning the campaign accounts of elected officials,” said The Constitutional Council.

non -suspensive appeal

Unsurprisingly, the elections that have played a few voices gave rise to appeals, like that for the 6 ^e district of Haute-Garonne, won by four voices difference by the candidate of the presidential majority, Monique Iborra, on Fabien Jouve, the candidate of the new Ecological and Social People’s Union (Nuts); or that for the 8 e district of Seine-et-Marne, where Arnaud Bonnet (Noups) filed an appeal after being beaten by four votes by Hadrien Ghomi, of the presidential majority.

In Paris, Caroline Mecary (Noups) also filed an appeal after her defeat by 658 votes apart from the Minister responsible for Europe, Clément Beaune. Eliminated in the first round in the 4 e district of Loiret, former Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer filed an appeal as he had announced. The singer Francis Lalanne, eliminated in the first round in the 3 e

é> district of Charente, where he collected 2.12 % of the votes, also seized the Constitutional Council.

After examining the files, the Constitutional Council can either reject the dispute and validate the election, or pronounce the cancellation of the election, or reform the results and proclaim another candidate (which he did not never done to date). He has no delay to make his decision.

An appeal is not suspensive, deputies whose election is disputed can sit on the assembly until the decision of the Constitutional Council.