The municipal campaigning has she taken a turn illegal ? While the second round of voting, promises to be extremely close to Marseilles – where the favorite Martine Vassal (LR) has been left behind on the 15th march last by his opponent left Michèle Rubirola (PS, PCF, EELV, BIA) – the recent revelations of France 2, and Marianne could have far-reaching consequences on the election.
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Thursday, the chain and the newspaper have brought to light the existence of a system potentially fraudulent power of attorney, which would have been put in place by at least two colistières of Martine Vassal. They would have sent SMS to given them the opportunity to “simplify” the procedure, and prevent them from going through the box office – yet mandatory.
“If these facts are proven, they are unacceptable”, she defends Vassal
A preliminary investigation was opened Friday evening and entrusted to the judicial police, to try to characterize the possible “fraudulent practices”, as well as for “forgery and use of forgery”. “The justice does its job, it checks to see if any offences have been committed and that the charge”, has justified the prosecutor, Dominique Laurens, to the AFP.
In the framework of these investigations, a search was held Saturday morning at the local campaign of Martine Vassal, according to the AFP. Contacted by Le Figaro, the candidate LR does not react at this stage. Interviewed Friday, she had blasted “of the Parisians (who) are trying to create a controversy that does not exist here”. Prior to ensure by issuing a press release that “if these facts (were) proven to be, they (were) unacceptable”.
Rubirola claims to have already found “4595 proxies incomplete”
His opponents did not fail to share their outrage. Starting with the candidate in the Spring of Marseilles, Michèle Rubirola, which has split several releases to require “transparency in the face of an emergency democratic”. “A control operation of the citizen” was also launched, to verify the powers of attorney filed in the local town hall.
Friday, Michèle Rubirola claims to have found “4595 proxies incomplete”, where “was already missing the date on which the proxy was given and the name of the police officer to whom the power of attorney is signed.” “Fearing a defeat, a part of the personnel policy of the right would be in the process of preparing a winter democratic in Marseille”, concludes the press release.
“These practices shameful call completely into question the sincerity of the poll in the 2nd city of France”, said the candidate RN Stéphane Ravier, demanding the cancellation of all the proxies in the boroughs concerned. “These revelations are serious,” prove to him that “the practices (…) teams of Martine Vassal are not worthy of a mayor of Marseille, but of the worst thugs”.
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