LAFAYETTE, la. (The Advertiser)-Several errors in an amendment that voters approved to create a separate Lafayette city council could require a new election. 

Lafayette Parish Mayor-President Joel Robideaux is expected to provide further details into the issues during a press conference Thursday afternoon, The Advertiser reported. 

A majority of voters favored an amendment in the Dec. 8 election that would have given Lafayette city residents their own council, while the Lafayette Parish would have a separate council to govern other municipalities. 

The existing Home Rule Charter from the 1990s that consolidated government functions between the city and parish means that all issues that come before the city parish are voted on by the whole council — including members who don’t live in the city of Lafayette. 

Since then, five municipalities in the parish elect a mayor and council for their city. They also vote on the mayor-president and a city-parish council person for their district.

Lafayette residents don’t have their own mayor or city council. They only vote on the mayor-president and city-parish council person for their district.

But on Tuesday, Robideaux was notified by the Lafayette Parish Registrar of Voters and acting Louisiana Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin’s Office that there were errors in the language of the amendment to create separate city and parish councils, said Cydra Wingerter, chief communications officer with Lafayette Consolidated Government. 

Once the errors were identified, some on the council hoped they could remedy the issues with via a “cleanup ordinance,” Wingerter said. 

But on Thursday after another call from Ardoin, Robideaux was advised the errors are “too significant for him to be able to certify the election results, and (the amendment) would have to go back to the people,” Wingerter said. 

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.