Legislative: appeal of Jean-Michel Blanquer rejected, Clement Beaune officially elected

The Constitutional Council, which has rejected eight of the appeals presented in nine districts, also canceled an election in the 1st district of Ariège.

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The appeal of Jean-Michel Blanquer in the Loiret was rejected by the Constitutional Council, Friday, January 27. The latter also validated the election of Minister Clément Beaune during the legislative elections in June, and canceled the election of Bénédicte Taurine (La France Insoumise, LFI) in Ariège.

The body responsible for electoral litigation rejected eight of the appeals presented in nine districts, including that presented by the former Minister of National Education, eliminated in the first round in the 4th district of Loiret, won largely in the second Tour by Thomas Ménéée (national rally, RN) with 63.36 % of the votes. The election of a short head of Minister Clément Beaune is validated in the 7 e district of Paris. He had imposed himself in the second round with 658 votes in advance on the candidate Caroline Mecary (LFI) who had appealed.

new ballot provided in Ariège

The Constitutional Council, on the other hand, accepted the appeal filed in the 1 ^re district of the Ariège by Jean-Marc Garnier (RN), eliminated in the first round with only eight votes late On Anne-Sophie Tribout (La République En Marche, LRM), beaten in the second by M ^{me taurine with 55.31 % of the votes. Bulletins bearing the name of an RN candidate in another district of the department “were mixed with those on behalf of Mr. Garnier, in the polling stations of the town of Tarascon-sur-Ariège”, noted the organization, which found 136 bulletins in the name of the other candidate Rn.}

“Given the gap (…), the absence of taking into account irregular bulletins (…) in the statement of the votes could have the effect of modifying the identity of the qualified candidates for the second round of Voting and thus altered the sincerity of the ballot, “said the Constitutional Council. For this constituency, a new ballot must be organized within three months.

The organization rejected the appeals in six other districts, validating the tight results of elections. The elected deputies concerned are: Jean-Marc Tellier (New Ecological and Social People’s Union, Nuts) in the 4 e district of Pas-de-Calais, Jean-François Lovisolo (LRM) in 5 E

é> of the Vaucluse, by Brigitte Klinkert (LRM) in the 1 ^{re sup> of the Haut-Rhin, of Damien Adam (LRM) in the 1 Seine-Maritime, Fadila Khattabi (LRM) in the 3 e of Côte-d’Or and Robin Reda (LRM) in the 7 e é> of the Essonne.}