A PS departmental adviser from Finistère, beaten by 5 votes in a canton of Brest, announced on Tuesday the filing of an appeal before the administrative court, an initiative which, if justice proved him right, could keep the department on the left in case of victory.
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Taking into account the difference of five votes, we took the decision to file an appeal for annulment of the election in the canton of Brest-3 before the administrative court before the five-day deadline which is allotted to us
", declared to AFP Marc Labbey, 67, leader of Finistère & Solidaires, candidate to succeed Nathalie Sarrabezolles, president of the PS of the departmental assembly. The Marc Labbey-Florence Cann duo collected on Sunday 3,484 votes in the canton of Brest (Saint-Pierre-Plouzané), against 3,489 for the centrist candidates Yves Du Buit and Emmanuelle Tournier.
In the first round, the union of the left of which Marc Labbey belongs had achieved 27.4% of the votes in this canton, the ecologists 21.9%, the center 29.6%, the right 5.7% and the RN 15.4% of the vote. "
On the canton of Brest-3, it is clear that the transfers of votes did not work well
," said Mr. Labbey, chairman of the "
Solidarity, childhood, family
"
commission
under the previous term of office. On the left for 23 years, the department of Finistère switched to the right on Sunday at the end of the second round of the departmental. The right and the center won 28 of the 54 seats to be filled in the 27 cantons of Finistère. "
We consider that there are elements that allow us to build an appeal file, with errors in the minutes or differences in interpretation of the texts on the declaration of spoiled ballots
, ”added Mr. Labbey.
Elected since 2011 in the department, the socialist also points to the responsibility of the failures of La Poste in the distribution of electoral envelopes. “
Some voters were not invited to vote,
” he explained. "
There is a strong stake in this canton because if the elections are canceled, that the voters are invited to return to the polls and that I win, that changes the majority at the level of the department
", continued Marc Labbey. In an interview with Ouest-France on Tuesday, Yohann Nédélec, federal secretary of the PS in Finistère, estimated for his part that the Finistère left had "
paid for the non-merger with the Greens to the regional
" which "
deprived it of reservoirs of votes in many cantons
”.