The Strasbourg administrative court said Friday the mayor FN Hayange, in Moselle, Fabien Engelmann, ineligible for one year following a “breach of particularly serious “in his campaign accounts. The court found that he had “committed a particularly serious breach of the rules governing the financing of election campaigns.”
“He has declared ineligible for a period of one year and resigned his term as alderman of the town of Hayange from the date endorse his judgment is final, “that is to say, once all remedies. Fabien Engelmann, having already decided to appeal, is not forced to resign immediately.
At the hearing Tuesday, public rapporteur is particularly lingered on 1575 euros costs of creating and printing election leaflets, the applicant failed to integrate his campaign accounts, the reported total amounted to some 12,000 euros. The sum was advanced by a running mate, his former first deputy Marie Da Silva today into dissent.
Engelmann pleads technical error
But Fabien Engelmann, there is a “technical error “and not a” fraud “as acknowledge Da Silva. “Mr. Engelmann can not claim that the payments were made without his knowledge by his running mate because he produced no evidence to substantiate” this thesis, the magistrate had said Tuesday Guénaëlle Haudier.
She also noted other irregularities in his campaign accounts, bringing the total unreported to 1939 euros, or 14.22% of its total expenditure. Now, in a similar case, a candidate was disqualified for not integrated into its accounts 14.6% of spending, she said.
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He ended in March? head of the second round of municipal elections with 34.7% of the vote to the outgoing Socialist mayor Philippe David. But in October, the National Commission of campaign accounts rejected its accounts and forwarded the case to the administrative justice.
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