The Lille administrative court rejected Thursday, March 4 the appeals filed by the two rivals Vert and LREM of Martine Aubry (PS) who contested the result of the last Lille municipal having renewed her, said the municipal majority and a lawyer from an applicant.
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The court followed the opinion of the public rapporteur. The two opponents of the socialist mayor, the Green Stéphane Baly and the walker Violette Spillebout, considered that the sincerity of the ballot, won by only 227 votes by the outgoing mayor, had been altered, in particular due to a large number of signatures "
radically different
”from one turn to the next.