It was for some the last hope to invalidate the outcome of the ballot for the elections last June. The Constitutional Council on Friday rejected 27 appeals against the results of the legislative elections, deeming them “inadmissible or manifestly unfounded”, among the 99 appeals registered at the beginning of July, according to a first examination.
At the end of the ten-day period available to candidates and voters to file an appeal, the Constitutional Council “wished to proceed as soon as possible to a first examination of the appeals thus registered, so as to dismiss those which are inadmissible or manifestly unfounded”. . “He rejected by decisions dated today a total of 27 appeals,” he said in a statement on Friday.
The Constitutional Council “will complete this examination of the admissibility of all the other appeals registered in the coming days”, in order to “focus in the following period on the files calling for a contradictory instruction on the merits”. The number of appeals filed this year is significantly lower than the more than 200 registered five years ago.
Jean-Michel Blanquer and Francis Lalanne seized the Council
Among the appeals, Nupes Caroline Mecary filed an appeal in Paris after her defeat by 658 votes against the Minister for Europe Clément Beaune. Eliminated in the first round in the 4th constituency of Loiret, the former Minister of National Education Jean-Michel Blanquer filed an appeal as he had announced. Note that Francis Lalanne, the singer eliminated in the first round in the 3rd district of Charente where he won 2.12% of the vote, also seized the Council.