The leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon called Sunday "
a commission of inquiry into the conditions in which the vote took place
" of the first round of regional, peppered with dysfunctions.
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It is time to publicly question the causes of such dysfunctions.
The office of the National Assembly would be well advised to open a commission of inquiry into the conditions under which the vote took place on Sunday,
”declared Mr. Mélenchon from his campaign headquarters.
Numerous malfunctions
Polling stations closed Sunday morning in Marseille for lack of assessors, missing ballots near Maubeuge (North) ... The first round of regional and departmental elections was marked by several failures on Sunday.
In Marseille, voters from 34 offices - according to the prefecture - found the door closed at 8 a.m. on Sunday.
A dozen offices could not open until 11:00 am, according to the town hall.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon was indignant on Twitter, referring to the lack of agreement between his movement and the other left-wing parties: "
In #Marseille, the union of the gôche (sic) more effective in ostracizing LFI than for organize democracy
”.
"
We regret that the Marseillaises and Marseillais had to wait this morning in order to be able to vote,
" wrote the left-wing coalition of Marseille Spring, which runs the city, in a
press
release, criticizing "
the attitude of the local right on social networks and the media aimed at inflaming a controversy
”.
The shortage of assessors has been observed in other French regions: the first deputy mayor of Saint-Etienne (Loire), Gilles Artigues (UDI) testified that "
the usual activist assessors were this year in insufficient number
". In Cousolre (North), another problem was raised: "
We found that there was no bulletin for the list of union of the left and environmentalists
", declared to AFP Benjamin Saint- Oil, socialist mayor of the neighboring town of Jeumont and president of the agglomeration of Maubeuge, himself in third position on this list.
