The fate of the Saint-Michel statue, a religious statue on the public domain in Les Sables-d’Olonne (Vendée) was at the heart of a citizen vote organized by the Town Hall. Mayor Yannick Moreau opposing the decision of the Nantes administrative court which granted the case in December to the association La Libre Pensée, in the name of the 1905 law on secularism. Justice asking the mayor to unbolt this statue.
Online or at the polling station
If the town hall appealed, it also wanted to survey the inhabitants on this subject which had become controversial, sensitive. A citizen vote was therefore organized since February 25 via the internet and this March 5 physically with polling stations. Some 70,000 people could vote, said Armel Pécheul, the first deputy. at the end of January. These are people with a main residence or a secondary residence in the municipality. Of this potential of 70,000, 4,593 therefore participated in this consultation.
Official result on Tuesday
An independent provider must check whether people have not voted twiceonline and at the polling station, the official result will therefore not be known until Tuesday, March 8.
But already, the town hall indicates that the provisional results are largely in favor of maintaining the statue, at 94.51% of voters, i.e. 4.341 “yes”. Remember that this consultation has no value in the face of the law, but the town hall wanted to survey the Sablais