Fabienne Giovannini, former elected member of the nationalist territorial majority and former president of the housing office of the Collectivity of Corsica, will not appeal her conviction for damage to the sincerity of the vote by fraudulent maneuver during the 2020 municipal elections in Bastia.
In a press release on Saturday, June 29, she announced her decision, while qualifying “unfair” the judgment handed down on June 18 by the Bastia Criminal Court. She had been sentenced to a fine of 2,000 euros, 1,500 of which was suspended, and one year of ineligibility. “Today I am exhausted, including financially, and I no longer wish to mobilize the resources of Justice to make myself heard”she justifies.
The municipal opposition had constituted itself as a civil party
As a reminder, the court had accused him of having sent two letters, signed by his hand, during between the two rounds of the election, to some 1,600 tenants of HLMs in Bastia, to praise the park renovation plan. of social housing implemented by the Corsican Community. The municipal opposition, which had become a civil party, had denounced an electoral maneuver to attract the favor of the inhabitants of the southern districts of Bastia to Pierre Savelli. In these letters, the former territorial elected official claimed the political support of the outgoing mayor, and the financial support of the Corsican Community, led by Gilles Simeoni, then 7th on Pierre Savelli’s list.
“I have always fought against electoral fraud”
In the statement, she continues to assert her innocence: “I have been repeating it tirelessly for three years, I never wanted to undermine the sincerity of the vote. I was not a candidate, not involved in the electoral campaign, I was only accountable for my desire to act for the good of the tenants to whom I had made the commitments that appear in this letter.”
She continues: “I have always fought against electoral fraud, for respect for democracy and for solidarity with the most deprived. […] I have only one regret: not having been able to complete the internal reorganization and the recovery plan that I had put in place within the public housing office with the management at the time.”
Arguments that she had already put forward at the bar, during her hearing on May 21.
