MoDem MP Anne Grignon, elected from the Yvelines 2nd district, announced her resignation on Friday, wanting to seize the initiative when one of her political opponents filed an appeal against her election.
A new by-election will be held in the coming weeks.
A question of law considered “totally absurd”
Anne Grignon, Jean-Noël Barrot’s replacement (MoDem) during the 2017 and 2022 Versailles legislative elections, became a deputy on August 4, a month after the latter’s appointment to the Government.
He explained on Friday that he had been the subject of an “appeal” from a “close friend of a candidate defeated in the first round”, which is based on a provision of the Electoral Code that prohibits, in particular, “replacing a member of an assembly parliamentary” to present himself as a substitute for a deputy.
However, Anne Grignon was the second-place candidate on the LaREM list during the senatorial elections of September 2017 in Yvelines. This list of the presidential majority having obtained only one seat, Anne Grignon is in fact the replacement for her elected running mate, particularly in the event of her resignation or death.
The situation has already occurred on several occasions, sanctioned by constant jurisprudence of the Constitutional Council, in particular in 2012 when the Elders canceled the election of the UMP deputy (ex-LR) Patrick Devedjian, alleging that his deputy Georges Siffredi was the replacement . in the Senate.
“I deeply regret this situation. In order to resolve it quickly, I have decided, responsibly, to resign my mandate,” explained the resigning elect in a press release, lashing out “a totally absurd point of law” and according to her. “not identified by the investigation services during the examination of applications” last June.
She is still mayor of Lévis-Saint-Nom
Anne Grignon again considered with AFP that it was an “obstruction of the fundamental freedom to apply.” Anne Grignon assured that she will take an “active part” in the future partial legislative elections, without further details.
She also remains mayor of Lévis-Saint-Nom (Yvelines), a mandate that until then she had intended to end in September, forcing the prohibition of the accumulation of mandates.
If she can no longer be a substitute, nothing prevents her from being a regular candidate to try to regain her seat at the Palais Bourbon. “We will discuss with Jean-Noël Barrot to make things the best possible”, she slips her.
In the second round, Jean-Noël Barrot was re-elected with 64.27% of the vote, almost six points better than five years earlier.
Source: BFM TV
