Process failures electronic voting in Argentina led the French Constitutional Court to cancel the mandate of the Franco-Dominican deputy Eléonore Caroit, chosen by Emmanuel Macron’s party in June 2022 for the Latin America and Caribbean constituency.
The decision leads to the repetition of these elections, for a date yet to be defined, in which the almost 75,000 French registered on the electoral lists of Latin American and Caribbean countries are summoned. As confirmed to EFE today, Caroit will be reintroduced.
In its statement, the Constitutional Court explained that only 11% of those registered on the consular lists of Argentina have received the codes to be able to vote remotely, a ruling which “prevented several thousand voters from participating in the first round” of the legislative elections. , held on 12 June.
In them, Caroit went to the second round with 34.57% of the votes, followed by 28.20% by the French-Chilean Christian Rodríguez, of the leftist La Francia Insumisa (LFI). In the second round of June 19, the young deputy won with 57.42% of the votes, against 42.58% for Rodríguez.
The abstention rate, traditionally very high in foreign constituencies, stood at 85%.
The highest administrative body in France has clarified, however, that this malfunction of the electronic voting process “is not attributable to the successful candidate, nor to the other participating candidates”.
The Constitutional Court also annulled the mandate of the deputy of Indomitable France, Karim Ben Cheïkh, which concerns the Maghreb and West Africa constituency, due to errors in the Algerian lists, similar to those registered in Argentina. Cheïkh had defeated former Macron minister Elisabeth Moreno (45.93%) with 54.07% of the votes.
Source: EFE
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