France Insoumise announces that it has filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council against the freezing of electoral lists

The freezing of electoral lists deprives “millions of people of their right to vote while only popular mobilization can defeat the extreme right,” estimates LFI.

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A person votes in the European elections, in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), June 9, 2024. (FREDERIC SCHEIBER / HANS LUCAS / AFP)

Insoumise France denounces “a serious democratic problem.” After the freezing of electoral lists announced by the Ministry of the InteriorTuesday June 11, the party announced that it had filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council, according to a press release consulted by franceinfo. “Our country has 11 million people not and incorrectly registered on the electoral lists”, thus reminds us of LFI. According to the political party, which qualifies “dangerous” the impossibility of registering on the electoral lists before the legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, Emmanuel Macron thus deprives millions of people of their right to vote while only popular mobilization can defeat the far right.”

People who were not registered on the electoral lists before Monday, the date of publication of the presidential decree, will not be able to vote in the next election, the Ministry of the Interior announced in the morning. “The election will take place from the electoral lists drawn up on the date of the decree. This therefore means that there is no additional time to register on the lists,” had specified the ministry, requested by AFP.

LFI, member party of “new popular front”, hasalso ensures citizens “that they can now contest their removal from the lists before the judicial court”.


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