the 1st round invalidated by mistake in Wail, the mayor of this commune of Pas-de-Calais puts his mandate at stake
In Wail, a small town in Pas-de-Calais, the ballot for the first round of the presidential election was invalidated. The mayor, guilty of administrative inattention, plans to leave office following this breach.
It is an administrative error which could have important consequences for the municipality of Wail, in Pas-de-Calais. On April 10, during the first round of the presidential election, the mayor was unable to present a key document to a constitutional delegate dispatched to monitor the ballot.
Serge Gottarand appointed at the Voice of the North having been defeated by the preparations. When the request was presented to him by the constitutional delegate, he did not immediately grasp its meaning and importance, saying to him: “I have no other documents to give you! And if there is one, I don’t know”. Problem: because of this irregularity, the results of the presidential election in the town of Wail were invalidated. The citizens of Serge Gotterand, who had placed Marine Le Pen in the lead at 40%, therefore went to the polls in vain.
Faced with the situation, the elected official translated a letter of apology to his population on April 14. Serge Gotterand, a retired gendarmerie major accustomed to cordoneau procedures, is visibly very touched by his own failure; He called a vote of confidence with his city council on April 15. “If I don’t win, I leave my functions, that’s very clearly established. I would only continue my action out of loyalty to my municipal council” confirmed the elected official with France 3.