A botched vote in France's newly elected parliament on Friday triggered allegations of ballot-stuffing, with politicians from the left and right pointing to possible fraud, reports FRANCE 24.
After two and a half hours of voting for the post of the National Assembly's deputy speakers, the ballot boxes were found to contain 10 envelopes more than the number of eligible voters.
Re-elected speaker Yaël Braun-Pivet from President Emmanuel Macron's centrist Renaissance party duly declared a re-run, prompting deputies to demand an investigation.
"Shame on those who committed this fraud," socialist lawmaker Jérôme Guedi thundered in the chamber.
Vincent Jeanbrun, a senior figure in the right-wing Les Républicains party, said there was a "suspicion of ballot box-stuffing".