Three deputies from the National Assembly are forced to resign after being declared ineligible by the Constitutional Council.
Three deputies, Jean Laussucq, Stéphane Vojetta (both EPR, the Macronist Party) and Brigitte Barèges (UDR, the party of Eric Ciotti allied to the RN) were declared ineligible by the Constitutional Council on Friday, which rejected their campaign accounts.
Jean Laussucq, deputy of Paris, Brigitte Barèges, deputy of Tarn-et-Garonne, and Stéphane Vojetta, deputy for the French established outside of France, were declared ineligible “for a period of one year” and “resigning of office” of their mandates, announced the Constitutional Council.
Jean Laussucq is accused of having settled “campaign expenses by means of his personal bank account” and for having let third parties “directly” a significant share of the expenses exposed for his election campaign “of 2024.
Irregular expenditure “represents 21% of the amount of account expenditure and 10.2% of the ceiling for expenses authorized in the constituency” and amount to 7,030 euros, said the Constitutional Council.
Partial legislative elections soon organized?
Brigitte Barèges was pinned for invoicing the participation in her campaign of two collaborators in her office in the town hall of Montauban, while she was the mayor.
Finally, the Constitutional Council reproached Stéphane Vojetta, elected in a constituency including in particular Spain and Portugal, of having “irregularly” regulated a “substantial part of the expenses incurred”, during its campaign, in particular “transport costs”.
Partial legislative elections must be organized soon to designate new deputies.
Two other deputies elected during the legislative elections in July 2024 had to put their seats into play after decisions of the Constitutional Council, in the Jura and in Saône-et-Loire.
