“A fraud”. Asked about Sud-Radio, Annie Genevad, interim president of LR, indicates that her formation plans to file a complaint against the JDD. In question: an article in which the newspaper explains how he got two cats to vote in the congress of this movement, whose first round was held this weekend.
Regarding the possible legal consequences, “we are examining the possibilities, we are thinking about it seriously, we will see it with our lawyer and the candidates,” explained the deputy for Doubs to the radio microphone.
“To discredit like this, not only an election, but a party, seems deeply shocking to me,” he lamented.
“Fake Members Everywhere”
The weekly indicated in its edition this Sunday that the authority in charge of ensuring the regularity of the vote only verifies the identity of the affiliates if the same “personal data (email, telephone, address, etc.) are used four times or more”. . Consequently, “therefore, you are entitled to three votes per person,” a source explained to the JDD according to which “there are fake members everywhere.”
“No party has put in place procedures as rigorous as the ones we have put in place,” Annie Genevard responded on Sud Radio.
“When you join the Republicans, you must declare on your honor that you are a natural person and that the payment is not made by a legal person,” he stipulated. However, he confirmed that “checks were carried out” on four “multiple affiliations”.
“The objective [du JDD] was to hurt” LR, she believes.
It regrets that the newspaper “has not carried out the same operation for all the political parties” and recalls in this sense that “we have just had internal elections in the National Rally” on November 5.
“I am questioning on an ethical level”
However, there was a recent precedent in LR. Last February, Release revealed that a dog, Douglas, had been able to join LR, ahead of the party’s congress, meant to nominate its 2022 presidential candidate.
“In this case, the dog couldn’t vote,” said Annie Genevard.
“She JDD he left wanting to show that it was possible using a scheme, a scam”, according to her. And to add: “I want to say how questionable I am ethically in this case.”
On Sunday, before the deputies qualified Éric Ciotti (42.73%) and Bruno Retailleau (34.45%) for the second round of the congress, a person familiar with the operation of the vote angered BFMTV against “a bully method ” consisting of “discrediting the ballot”, according to him.
A relative of one of the three candidates in this election didn’t seem really surprised. He told BFMTV that “as long as we don’t ask for an ID to become a member, we are exposing ourselves to a proliferation of fake IDs and a form of patronage.” He stressed that “the phenomenon of fake cards is very marginal,” but acknowledged that “it poses an image problem.”
Source: BFM TV
