Geneva policy
The Federal Court refuses to suspend the election to the executive of Vernier
Mon-repos rejects the request for a suspensive effect which accompanies the appeal to have this ballot canceled.
The town hall of Vernier (illustration image).
Laurent Guiraud/Tamedia
Unlike the Vernioan municipal council, the executive of Vernier will not be suspended during the investigation, recently announced the Federal Court (TF). The three magistrates may indeed remain in office until the light is made on the complaint deposited by a citizen supported by the MCG.
The latter also wanted the conservation of evidence concerning the distribution of voting equipment last spring. However, the TF considers that it does not demonstrate that these evidence could disappear if their production should be later ordered.
Legitimate administrators
The court also considers that the request on the appointment of provisional administrators, other than outgoing elected officials, is “now without object, since their mandate has ended”. At the head in the second round of the election, the three outgoing magistrates of Vernier had been appointed provisional administrators. The Geneva justice then not having noted irregularities during the ballot, they entered into office on June 11.
The judges do not intend to intervene in the conduct of the criminal procedure by the prosecutor general of the canton, while the appellant requested an extension of the survey to the infringement of suffrage and to the irregularities linked to the distribution of the voting equipment.
According to the Federal Court, these requests go beyond the framework of provisional measures and are inadmissible. Mon-repos must now rule on the appeal proper, which has been rejected by the Geneva justice.
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