In a letter addressed to the press, Fabienne Giovannini announced that she would not appeal her conviction for electoral fraud, fined €2,000, €500 of which was firm, and barred from standing for election for one year. She, then president of the Corsican Housing Office, had sent letters to some tenants between the two rounds of the 2020 municipal elections in Bastia.
She says she is “tired of having to [se] justify for having tried to do [son] working with few resources in an extremely tense context, in the midst of the Covid epidemic where all ordinary procedures were swept aside, for the management of an organization where it was necessary to deal with all emergencies.
I have been repeating it tirelessly for three years: I never wanted to undermine the sincerity of the vote. I acted according to a single timetable: the internal one of the Public Housing Office. I had only one concern: the difficulties of the tenants. […]
Today I am exhausted, including financially, and I do not wish to mobilize the resources of Justice to make myself heard. I believe that the fine imposed on me is enough to demonstrate to what extent the accusations that supposedly placed me at the heart of an electoral plot of which I was the key player did not hold up. People who know me know that my honor is intact.”
