Les Sables d'Olonne
Saturday, thirty-five days before all the French, the Sablais have already entered the voting booth.
It was not an election, but a simple consultation, organized by the town hall of Sables-d'Olonne (Vendée), online and then in five polling stations.
"Would you like the statue of Saint Michael to remain in front of Saint Michael's Church?"
This is the question, seemingly innocuous, which was submitted to some 70,000 main or secondary residents (for 45,000 inhabitants).
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The yes vote won 94.51% out of 4,593 voters, according to provisional results published this weekend, while the controversy has swelled since December 16, when the Nantes administrative court ordered the city - which made appeal - to remove the statue from public space, giving reason to the applicant, the Vendée Federation of Free Thought.
Sylvie came to vote at the town hall under a radiant sun.
“I used to play around the statue when I was little.
We have to keep it, and then it's...
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