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Can the European elections be held in New Caledonia on June 9? New Caledonians, whose day by day life is deeply disrupted, doubt it. How can we think about that residents who’ve issue touring and battle to acquire provides will be capable to go to the polls in ten days?

The elections ought to be held on the Caillou, however in a fashion “degraded”we decide on the spot. “Today, they can be organized in a certain number of polling stations, but not everywhere”assessed, Wednesday May 29, from Nouméa, Philippe Gomès, former deputy (Union of Democrats and Independents) of New Caledonia (2012-2022), president of Caledonia collectively (non-independence).

The situation of European elections being prevented in a part of French territory arouses the curiosity of jurists. “I surveyed a former member of the Constitutional Council, we found ourselves like chickens in front of a fork”, says Benjamin Morel, lecturer in public legislation on the University of Paris-II Panthéon-Assas. Because the legislator has not supplied for something within the occasion of the State's incapacity to arrange the vote. “To be able to proclaim the results, the election judge needs the minutes of all the polling stations, notes the lawyer. What does he do if they haven't all reached him? There is a legal vacuum, the electoral code provides for fraud and errors, but not crises. »

Until now, in comparable circumstances, postponement has prevailed. On March 11, 1973, a cyclone hit the island of Reunion, preventing the second round of legislative elections from taking place. The vote was postponed for a week by the prefect. The climatic phenomenon “made it inevitable that a measure of postponement of the second round would exceptionally take place”had then authorised the Constitutional Council, evoking the “exceptional circumstances of nature”. In 2020, the second spherical of municipal elections was postponed in France because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

But what in regards to the European elections, which should happen on the similar time – over a interval of 4 days, from Thursday to Sunday – within the twenty-seven international locations of the European Union (EU)? “They might be postponed in New Caledonia, attributable to distinctive circumstancesbelieves Benjamin Morel. The election decide would combine the brand new outcomes. » On situation, nonetheless, that the proclamation of the ultimate outcomes takes place earlier than the inaugural session of the European Parliament, scheduled for July 16.

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