Former Minister and Senator of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Annick Girardin Declared Ineligible for One Year by the Constitutional Council

Former Minister of Overseas Territories (2017-2020) and then of the Sea (2020-2022) Annick Girardin was declared ineligible for a period of one year by the Constitutional Council, effectively invalidating her election as Senator for Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in September 2023. The Constitutional Council issued its final decision this Friday and pronounced “the ineligibility of Ms. Girardin for any mandate for a period of one year from the present decision and to declare her to have resigned automatically”.

The Constitutional Council said it had found irregularities in the filing of the former minister’s campaign accounts. The candidate had been singled out by the Commission on Campaign Accounts and Political Financing for irregularities in the filing of these accounts. “Ms. GIRARDIN is declared to have automatically resigned from her mandate as senator”ruled the judges of the Constitutional Council.

For her part, Annick Girardin had invoked “the particularity of the senatorial vote of the archipelago” and argued that “her financial agent had opened a bank account in March 2024 and that she had not incurred any expenditure or received any income”.