The Constitutional Council rejected, this Friday, 27 appeals against the results of the June 2022 legislative elections as “inadmissible or manifestly unfounded”, among the 99 appeals registered at the beginning of July, according to a first examination.
After the ten-day period that candidates and voters had to file an appeal, the Constitutional Council “wished to proceed as soon as possible to a first examination of the appeals thus registered, in order to dismiss those that are inadmissible or manifestly unfounded.” .
“He rejected a total of 27 appeals through sentences dated today,” he said in a statement this Friday.
The Constitutional Council “will complete this examination of the admissibility of all the other resources registered in the coming days”, to “focus in the following period on the files that request a contradictory instruction on the merits”.
Blanquer resource validated
The number of appeals filed this year is significantly lower than the more than 200 registered five years ago.
Among the appeals, the Nupese candidate 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 the 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 Charente’s 3rd arrondissement where he got 2.12% of the vote, also took over the Council.
Source: BFM TV
