Giuseppe Sandro Mela.
2018-03-16.
Alle elezioni suppletive di Pontoise Mr Macron ha preso una solenne bastonata nei denti. La sua candidata Isabelle Muller-Quory è stata battuta in modo rocambolesco da Antoine Savignant 51.45% versus 48.55%.
Fin qui, apparentemente, nulla di particolare: le elezioni si possono vincere e si possono perdere. Poi, elezioni più o meno locali non dovrebbero essere assunte a paradigma nazionale.
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Ma il caso di Pontoise è alquanto diverso dal solito. E lo è per moltissimi motivi, che ben val la pena di considerare a fondo.
«Pontoise est une commune française située en région Île-de-France, sur la rive droite de l'Oise, à environ vingt-cinq kilomètres au nord-ouest de Paris.
Chef-lieu du département du Val-d'Oise, elle accueille une sous-préfecture, la préfecture ne se situant pas au chef-lieu mais dans la ville voisine de Cergy, depuis la création de la nouvelle ville de Cergy-Pontoise, ce qui constitue un cas unique en France métropolitaine.
La ville abrite une des plus importantes cités judiciaires du pays et est le siège du diocèse de Pontoise, détaché de celui de Versailles en 1966. Ses habitants sont appelés les Pontoisiens.»
Alle elezioni politiche del 2017 in quella circoscrizione Mrs Isabelle Muller-Quory aveva ottenuto il 35.93% dei voti, contro il 17.75% di Mr Antoine Savignant.
Cosa mai era successo?
«On 14 November 2017, the Constitutional Council heard an appeal regarding the 2017 legislative elections within Val-d'Oise's 1st constituency by the three main defeated candidates, Antoine Savignat of The Republicans (LR), Denise Cornet of the National Front (FN), and Leïla Saïb of La France Insoumise (FI), who argued that the election should be invalidated because Michel Alexeef, selected as an substitute to elected deputy Isabelle Muller-Quoy of La République En Marche! (REM), previously served as a president of an employment tribunal within the constituency from January 2016 to January 2017, rendering him ineligible to run in a legislative election under the electoral code.
The Constitutional Council annulled the election of Muller-Quoy on 16 November 2017 under article L.O. 132 of the electoral code, and a by-election was held in the constituency in 2018 to fill the vacant seat. The legislative by-election was the first to be held since the election of Emmanuel Macron, and the first to be contested by a REM candidate.
Since the 2017 legislative elections, the Constitutional Council received 298 appeals within 122 constituencies; since 21 July, 242 of these were rejected, with another forty cases outstanding when the result in Val-d'Oise was annulled» [Fonte]
