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POL EMILE / SIPA

These are stories that can make people smile, apart from perhaps the main stakeholders.

A public rapporteur has asked the administrative court of Bordeaux to cancel two municipal elections in the Gironde… because of Facebook after complaints from defeated candidates, reports

Sud Ouest.

Voters in Ambès could first return to the polls because the elected mayor, with one vote, asked at least two voters to “like” his Facebook page within 48 hours before the vote.

Kevin Sufrena says it was before, Friday, and that he was in the rules.

Then in Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde where victory was also played out with one voice, it is not even the elected mayor who is directly targeted, but one of his municipal employees who boasted about the social network for forcing someone to vote for him.

Response from the city councilor: “It's a personal account, I can't control it and, moreover, he [the municipal employee] did not officially support me.

But it doesn't matter for the public rapporteur.

The administrative tribunal will deliver its judgments in a short month.

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  • Bordeaux

  • Social networks

  • Court

  • Municipal

  • Aquitaine

  • Vote

  • Elections

  • Facebook