The elected officials of Nîmes Métropole had agreed to reduce the number of elected officials who are authorized to sit in the hemicycle, in accordance with the health measures linked to the covid-19 pandemic. But during the community council organized this Monday, an elected member of the RN group, Laurence Gardet, “was prevented from entering the hemicycle“, indicates Yoann Gillet in a press release. The President of the groups of elected RNs in Nîmes and Nîmes Métropole threatens to seize the Prefecture and the administrative tribunal.
The sanitary conditions obviously make it necessary to reduce the number of elected representatives in the hemicycle, “reason why, for several months, we had agreed to reduce to two the number of elected members of our group“, explains Yoann Gillet.”However, on this day, Nîmes Métropole prevented Laurence Gardet from accessing the hemicycle, flouting her right to be elected to the Republic.“. Yoann Gillet was thus the only one authorized to enter. “I obviously, in solidarity with my colleague, left the meeting.”
“By changing the rules that we had previously set between group presidents, Franck Proust flouts democracy. He also goes against the texts which do not allow an elected official to be prohibited from attending a meeting.” Y. Gillet (press release)
The National Gathering ensures seize this Tuesday the Prefect of Gard “so that she can remind Franck Proust of the rules.“Yoann Gillet also intends to seize the administrative court in the coming days for”cancel all the deliberations that have been voted irregularly today“.
