As the mayor of the town, Jean-Michel Perret – who is inspired by the slogan of Galeries Lafayette – likes to remind us, “there is always something happening in Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas”. This time, the residents have the right to the ineligible candidate!
Even without golf, you don’t get bored in Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas. A year ago, we remember that the mayor had kindly lent one of the members of his municipal council (Aurélien Rousseau) to serve as Minister of Health for 5 months before resigning. Today here is a new opportunity to have fun with the ineligible candidate. A new concept! We dare in Saint-Hilaire, we invent, we innovate!
Those who follow diligently Objective Gard certainly learned, yesterday morning in our columns, of the candidacy of a certain Gaël Girard in the next municipal elections of Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas (read again here). The thirty-year-old is not unknown locally since he is an accomplished funeral director, but also a former candidate in the 2022 legislative elections in the 4th constituency of Gard, which includes Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas. It is precisely these legislative elections that could play a bad trick on him.
Mayor of the town, Jean-Michel Perret responded to our article with a PDF document from the Constitutional Council website. A few months after the elections in question, on March 31, 2023 precisely, the Constitutional Council declared Gaël Girard ineligible “ for a period of three years from this decision “. Clearly, if the 2026 municipal elections – the dates of which have not yet been communicated – take place before March 31, 2026, Gaël Girard will be ineligible. And why is he ineligible? “ At the expiration of the deadline provided for in article L. 52-12 of the electoral code, he did not submit a campaign account even though he was required to do so. », Details the Constitutional Council.
Jean-Michel Perret, mayor of Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas • Sacha Virga
Questioned on the subject, Gaël Girard has an explanation: “I had my reasons for not having submitted my file on time. It was not a choice but a personal matter…”he replies. “I may be ineligible but that does not mean that I cannot be a candidate! In addition, the date is wrong, the decision is dated December 19, 2022, which means according to my lawyer, that the suspension will be lifted on December 19, 2025″he says. “And even if the Constitutional Council was right, the mayors will do everything to have a full six-year mandate, so the elections have a good chance of being postponed”.
The various right-wing candidate also says “disappointed” of the reaction of the mayor, for whom he “great respect” as well as for institutions. “The people of Saint-Hilair don’t care about these stories, and it shows why they are, among other things, disinterested in politics.”. As for Jean-Michel Perret, his opinion is clear: “He’s not an unpleasant guy, I have nothing against him and we’ve known for a while that he wanted to run. It surprised me a little that he was a candidate given his ineligibility, but in politics, we can see everything…”. The interested party will appreciate… The next few weeks promise to be lively. There’s always something happening in Saint-Hilaire…
