On the evening of the first round, Maxime Gaconnet had obtained 50, 20% of votes and candidate RN Kévin Chaleil-Dos Ramos 9, 55%. Sure 15. 405 inhabitants registered on the electoral rolls, only 4. 310 voters had come for the ballot. Louis Mermet, lawyer for Maxime Gaconnet, had pleaded in his appeal for annulment the record abstention rate in Annemasse.
In October, the administrative court of Grenoble had already annulled the re-election to the town hall of Crest (Drôme) of Hervé Mariton , who narrowly won in the second round. The former minister was singled out for exploiting the resources of the community for campaigning purposes. In mid-September, the same jurisdiction had also invalidated the result of the municipal elections in La Balme-de-Sillingy (Haute-Savoie), one of the first clusters of Covid – 19 in France, due to the difficulty in establishing proxies during the epidemic period.
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