Lyon: Risk of canceling municipal elections reignites tensions on the left in Vaulx-en-Velin and Vénissieux
According to Le Monde, "La France insoumise" mayors in two suburbs of Lyon are puzzled that their left-wing rivals, who lost in the recent election, learned of administrative errors that could lead to the elections being canceled.
A dispute is dividing several figures on the left in the Lyon suburbs, reports Le Monde. In Vaulx-en-Velin and Vénissieux, the mayors from La France insoumise, Abdelkader Lahmar and Idir Boumertit, face the risk of having their municipal elections annulled.
According to the newspaper, administrative errors that tainted the ballot are to blame. The two mayors are surprised that their defeated rivals in these elections, Hélène Geoffroy, the outgoing Socialist mayor of Vaulx-en-Velin, and Michèle Piccard of the Communist Party in Vénissieux, learned of this at the very moment of voting.
According to Le Monde, this situation is reigniting tensions between different factions of the left in these two municipalities, where the results of the municipal elections could be called into question.
Le Monde does not specify, in the available excerpt, the exact nature of the administrative errors cited or the timeline for a possible court decision regarding the cancellation of the elections.
Sources
- Dans la banlieue lyonnaise, le risque d’annulation des élections municipales provoque une bataille à gauche — Le Monde — Une
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