The unsuccessful candidate for the by-election for the town hall of Trappes (Yvelines), Othman Nasrou, a close friend of Valérie Pécresse (LR / Libres!), Filed an appeal asking for its cancellation, AFP learned from the court on Tuesday October 19. administration of Versailles, confirming information from
Le Monde
.
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In this type of electoral dispute, deadlines are constrained and the court will have to render its decision within two months, he told AFP. On October 10, Ali Rabeh (Génération.s) had obtained 58.36% of the votes in the first round, under tension, of the by-election of Trappes organized after the cancellation of the 2020 ballot. “
Tonight, the Trappists have chosen to re-elect Ali Rabeh,
”Othman Nasrou had recognized on Sunday evening. First vice-president of Valérie Pécresse at the regional council of Ile-de-France, he was at the head of an unusual alliance formed with the former mayor PS Guy Malandain, which gathered 34.89% of the votes.
The election of Ali Rabeh by 161 votes in 2020 had been annulled by the justice (the administrative court then the Council of State), which accused him of having distributed, in the midst of the pandemic, 15,000 masks accompanied for some of his photo, without this action having been declared in his campaign accounts.
In this popular commune of 32,000 inhabitants marked by the departures of dozens of young people for jihad in Syria, accusations of "
patronage
" had punctuated the campaign on both sides.
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The invalid mayor Ali Rabeh denounced during the campaign the "
drift
" of the former mayor PS Guy Malandain (2001-2020), became number three on the list led by Othman Nasrou.
For his part, the latter blamed Ali Rabeh for a “
clientelist
” system with “
intimidation, threats, pressure
” that he would have put in place since his arrival at town hall in June 2020.
