Nicolas Florian and Pierre Hurmic. - UGO AMEZ / SIPA

  • Pierre Hurmic sued Nicolas Florian for “solicitation of proxies”.
  • A summary procedure was filed Friday afternoon by the green candidate who asked his rival to cease "any communication maintaining the confusion between his status as mayor and that of candidate". The judge hearing the applications examined this Monday afternoon and postponed his decision to tomorrow.
  • Claiming to have been “solicited by many Bordeaux residents shocked by this confusion” of genres, Pierre Hurmic was present at the hearing.

“I may be a lawyer, but I am not a lawyer. If I have sued Nicolas Florian, this is what I really consider that he has crossed unacceptable limits. It has to be sanctioned. This Monday at 2 p.m., just before the hearing to be held in the Bordeaux court, Pierre Hurmic denies having played the campaign card.

A few days before the second round of the municipal elections and after a poll announcing it losing, the ecological candidate assigned his rival to an urgent procedure. The outgoing mayor, according to Pierre Hurmic, “solicited proxies” from voters in emails addressed to Bordeaux residents. Point of honor, here. The head of the Bordeaux Respire list ensures that Nicolas Florian "lacks ethics" and gives "the air of Marseille to Bordeaux".

“Nicolas Florian addressed himself as mayor to the voters, recalling his duty to organize the poll in the best sanitary conditions. But the problem is that, in the second part of the email, it is clearly indicated "if you cannot travel, you can send your proxies to my team". However, it is not said that it is his campaign team, "argues Pierre Hurmic, just before the hearing.

A "stratagem that abuses the Bordeaux people"

The head of the Europe-Ecology-The-Greens list claims to have been aware of "complaints from Bordeaux residents who were fed up". Complaints lodged with the Cnil (national commission of data processing and freedoms) which pushed him to “seize in urgent the judge of the summary procedures so that it prohibits the candidate Florian to continue to use this stratagem which abuse the citizens ”. "Legally, it's called a manifestly illicit disorder," advises Pierre Hurmic. There is a confusion between the qualities of mayor and candidate which is unbearable. It is an abuse of a dominant position. "

The summary examination scheduled for 2 p.m. is postponed to 4 p.m. "You can take advantage of this time to find an amicable solution," said the summary judge, smiling. #AffaireFlorianHurmic pic.twitter.com/7CvMpcWIol

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Pierre Hurmic appeared serene in front of the pack of journalists who awaited him on the court forecourt. Certain, he said, that he was "not going to lose" this legal battle. Contacted by 20 Minutes , the Florian camp once again assured that the campaign file complied with the GDPR (general data protection regulation), without "any porosity" with the municipal files. He did not wish to express more, preferring to wait for the court decision.

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It should fall tomorrow, Tuesday, said around 17:30 the judge. Nicolas Florian could therefore be called to order concerning "gender confusion" and have to transmit the list of proxies obtained, as requested by Pierre Hurmic. And here is a judicial parenthesis which will have had the merit of putting a little salt into this campaign which, despite all the first (first triangular and first second round for over seventy years), lacks spice.

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