Ali Rabeh was elected mayor in the first round of the municipal elections in Trappes on Sunday October 10. The 2020 election had been cancelled due to several violations blamed on the left-wing candidate. Ali Rabeh claimed victory with “at least 57% of the vote”. […] against a zemmourised and clientelist right-wing political faction”.
He also spoke of a six-percentage-point increase in voter turnout, although it would not have reached 50 %. His party Génération.s and the environmentalist Julien Bayou congratulated him on his victory on Twitter, although the official results have not yet been published. The candidate of the right, Othman Nasrou (Libres!), would have received 39 % of the vote. The first election was declared invalid by the administrative court because Ali Rabeh had campaigned during the period between the two rounds of voting. He had also failed to record this expenditure in his campaign documents.
The administrative court had not only declared the election invalid, but also fined Ali Rabeh, barring him from participating in the election, but this decision was overturned by the Council of State. Last September, Valeurs actuelles revealed the behind-the-scenes management of the city and its teams, between clientelism, communitarianism and “intolerable” working conditions.
https://www.valeursactuelles.com/politique/municipale-partielle-ali-rabeh-elu-maire-de-trappes/