They did not take off after the decision of the Constitutional Council to invalidate the votes of the voters of their commune last Sunday, during the second round of the presidential election.

The mayors of Nogaro and Eauze, in the Gers, were served with the invalidation of the ballot papers, like six other French municipalities, on the grounds that during the passage of the delegated magistrate of the Institution responsible for ensuring the regularity of the elections , "only one member of the polling station was present".

That is respectively 894 and 1,974 votes cast.

"As such an irregularity is likely to lead to errors and encourage fraud, it is necessary to cancel all the votes cast in these polling stations", indicates the Constitutional Council.

What arouse the ire of local elected officials who ask the institution to "remove the stigma and discredit" thus thrown on their municipalities.

Letter to Laurent Fabius

“The Council relies on this false and deleterious report.

He says there was only one person per polling station, that's nonsense!

When she came, I was at the Day of the Deportees for forty minutes, to lay flowers in front of the memorial tomb.

Four deputies were present at the polling station at that time, “justified the mayor of Eauze, Michel Gabas, to AFP.

As of Sunday evening, he had reported the incident to the prefect and has already written to the President of the Constitutional Council, Laurent Fabius, to whom he expresses his dismay and his incomprehension.

He tackles the delegated magistrate who would have "a lack of knowledge of administrative processes", a "diverted interpretation, obviously tainting the reputation and the seriousness of an entire city".

His counterpart from Nogaro, Christian Peyret, says that when the magistrate came, “I was in front of the room and as president of the polling station, I was talking with residents.

She told me that my place was inside and not in front, in a vehement, impolite tone.

I did not think that we would go as far as the invalidation of the ballot, ”he lamented.

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