Posted on 03/24/2021 at 10:43 p.m.
The voters of Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville are moving towards a new vote. The decision will be known in three weeks.
Will the voters of Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville have to vote again? (PN archives photo)
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The voters of Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville are moving towards a new vote. The Council of State, seized by the elected mayor Myriam Mulot after the cancellation of the election by the administrative court of Rouen, must render its decision in three weeks. The balance tilts for a return to the polls.
After the administrative court of Rouen, will the Council of State confirm the cancellation of the municipal election of March 15, 2020, in Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville? The high administrative court studied, Wednesday March 24, the decision of the Rouen judges, in Paris, at the request of Myriam Mulot. The public rapporteur of the Council of State recalled what the dispute consisted of which had led to a decision to cancel the electoral operations on September 21. In this case, the losing list “Dare to renew”, led by Christophe Aubert, disputes the use in a campaign document of the victorious list “All together for Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville”, led by Ms. Mulot, the logo of several associations. Highlighted on nearly a page and accompanied by the sentences “We have a duty to help them” and “Six proposals for our associations”, these would have been instrumentalized in order to obtain votes.
However, it is said on the side of Christophe Aubert, at least three of the associations whose logo appeared on the document would dispute that they never gave their support to Myriam Mulot’s list. For the public rapporteur, if we can understand that the list wished to “highlight the life of associations” and underline its importance for the local fabric, the initiative can however “pose a problem”. For the Councilor of State, taking advantage of the support of associations by showing their logo on a campaign document “may appear as an electoral argument”. And that, he believes, especially since the voters, “by taking a quick look at the logos”, can conclude to “a real support” on the part of the associations concerned.
Response in three weeks
However, the difference of 16 votes noted between the two lists, “is too low not to consider that this page could not have had an influence on the result of the election”, concluded the public rapporteur.
He therefore asked the judges of the Council of State to reject the request of the mayor and vice-president of the metropolis of Rouen. Response expected in about three weeks. If the judges follow their public rapporteur, a new municipal election will have to be organized in Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville.
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