Annick Girardin loses her mandate as senator of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and is said ineligible for one yr | EUROtoday

The former Minister of Overseas Territories (2017-2020) after which of the Sea (2020-2022), Annick Girardin, who was elected Senator of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in September 2023, has been declared “ineligible for a period of one year” by the Constitutional Council (Decision No. 2024-6293 SEN of September 13, 2024 | Constitutional Council), Friday, September 13, thus dropping his mandate.

The Council had been contacted on February 26 by the National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing, which had rejected the marketing campaign account of Annick Girardin (Cap sur l'avenir) shortly earlier than. “on the grounds that this account was not accompanied by bank statements certifying the transactions carried out by its financial agent” and, above all, that the elected senator “did not justify that the financial agent had carried out all the necessary due diligence for the purpose of obtaining the opening of such an account”.

No account created as a result of no spending

In response, the previous minister, a member of the Radical Party, invoked “the particularity of the senatorial vote of the archipelago” and asserts “that it had not incurred any expenditure or received any income” and that “his financial agent had opened a bank account in March 2024”both after the election.

However, in its resolution, the Constitutional Council remembers that legislative provisions require candidates for senatorial elections to open a “campaign account” in an effort to hint “all revenues collected and, depending on their nature, all expenses incurred or made for the election”.

His ineligibility for any mandate ” for a period of one year [est effective] from this date »And “M^me Girardin is said to have resigned robotically »it’s specified within the textual content issued by the Council. A by-election will subsequently be organized.

In Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, an archipelago of barely six thousand inhabitants off the coast of Canada, solely thirty-nine electors have been referred to as to the polls and twenty of them had designated Annick Girardin to signify them. The Constitutional Council should additionally rule on the case of her two opponents, who have been additionally singled out by the National Commission for Campaign Accounts, notes La 1re.

Former MP, Annick Girardin held a number of portfolios between 2014 and 2022 (Secretary of State for Development, Minister of the Civil Service, Minister of Overseas Territories after which of the Sea), earlier than becoming a member of the Senate following the elections final September.