The groom, an engineer, applied for an annulment because his bride, a student nurse, had lied to him about her virginity.
The judge, said Ségolène Royal, the former Socialist presidential candidate, would never have agreed to the annulment had a case about false virginity been brought by a woman.
A dozen presidential candidates, including several presumed front-runners, cried fraud and called for the election's annulment.
An annulment or acquittal ; dismissal, as of a court order.
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