- The president (DvD) of the Nord department, Jean-René Lecerf, admits having voted for Martine Aubry at the municipal elections in Lille.
- The candidate's campaign team (LREM), Violette Spillebout, accuses the elected official of having voted in Lille, when he no longer has a residence there.
- Jean-René Lecerf denies any illegality.
Is the president (DvD) of the Nord department registered in the right city? Jean-René Lecerf is accused by the campaign team of the candidate (LREM) Violette Spillebout of having voted in Lille, during the first round of the municipal elections, on March 15, when he no longer has a residence there Last year.
In February, the elected official announced that he would bring his ballot to Martine Aubry. However, according to three candidates from the list led by Violette Spillebout, Jean-René Lecerf "sold the property he owned boulevard de la Liberté to Lille in 2019", a parliamentary permanence he lent to others elected since 2015.
Cancellation of electoral lists?
In a press release, the macronist candidates believe that "it is the moral responsibility of each citizen to be regularly registered on the electoral bases of the municipality where he is a voter". They therefore ask for "the removal of Jean-René Lecerf from the electoral lists of Lille", pointing to "the legal responsibility of the city to verify the electoral bases before the vote".
A responsibility refuted by Marie-Christine Staniec, assistant (PS) to the mayor in charge of elections. “A control commission, which includes a representative of all the political groups sitting in Lille, met before the first round to verify the radiation and the registrations which were transmitted to us by the INSEE responsible for cross-checking the information via its single file, ”she explains to 20 Minutes .
Several thousand people are struck off or registered per year. "I don't live with Mr. Lecerf. I am therefore not aware of its real estate operations. If his old friends had warned us earlier, we could have checked out. Two days before the election, there is nothing I can do, ”says Marie-Christine Staniec.
2001 case law
Contacted, Jean-René Lecerf defends himself by brandishing the electoral code and a jurisprudence of 2001. "The court of cassation had ruled in favor of a lady struck off the electoral lists in Sète after having sold her house the previous year", specifies t -he.
The judgment he quotes emphasizes that if one has paid municipal contributions, that is to say property taxes, housing taxes or other, in a municipality the last five years, one is authorized to keep the right to vote.
"Armed with this jurisprudence, I will see if my registration poses a problem before going to vote in the second round," promises Jean-René Lecerf who explains that he has been registered in Lille since 2001, even if he has his main residence in Marcq-en-Barœul. "When I sold this property last year, I intended to buy a property in Lille," he says. It might already be done without the Covid. "
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Spillebout "bites the hand" of Aubry who "nourished" considers Jean-René Lecerf, during the municipal elections in Lille
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