The radical speeches of the far-right candidates have contributed to mobilizing voters already attracted by the candidate of France unsuitable.
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It’s 20 hours, Sunday, April 10 and, while the first presidential estimates fall into the campaign HQs, about sixty voters still waiting to vote at the School of Solidarity (15 e ), imposing quoted north of Marseille. Hedi Ramdane, the President of the Bureau 1,587, Municipal Assistant to the Youth, just locks the grilles and grows inside the last arrivals. Everyone will vote before the office closes at 8:44 pm
In this popular district, where the Muslim confession Marseillais are the majority and the Ramadan very followed, this late trowy even surprises the elected, from the “soli” and used to the office. “For these people to stay there while they should break the fast, is that they are very motivated,” he slips, trying to accelerate the votes. In the queue, women, men, young adults, have clear motivations. “We’re not going to lie, there are racists who arise. If Zemmour was not a candidate, I would not be there,” Karim Rhali, Grand Gaillard 18-year-old voting for the first time. Her boyfriend Malek Seddi, 21, did not move to the regional 2021. Today, like Karim, he’s voting Mélenchon. “It’s the only one who is with the poorest. The only one who defended us when Zemmour and the Pen attacked Muslims,” he says.
“In this campaign, there have been very violent words against our religion, our practices, our origins”, delivers in a soft voice Soraya Chachoua, 43 years old, agent in schools. Come times several times in the day, she declined in front of the wait. But at 7:30 pm, she stayed. And patient for an hour. “I have no choice, I have to vote,” she insists.
“An aggregate”
In 2017 to solidarity, Jean-Luc Mélenchon had arrived in mind with 29% of the votes. This Sunday night, it exceeds 66%. A score that could have even been higher. Behind the office where the assessors are sitting, a stack of envelopes is stored. “These are the votes of people who came spontaneously, without knowing that they had to register first on the electoral lists,” says Hedi Ramdane. It opens a random envelope. A Mélenchon newsletter appears.
Leader on the whole of Marseille, with 17,576 votes more than in 2017, the candidate “Insoumis” has mobilized all the strata of his electorate. But it is in the popular neighborhoods that it literally explodes its election ceilings, despite lower participation. 63% in Air-Bel (11 e ), 79.83% in Saint-Mauront at the foot of the Felix-Pyat City (3 e ) whose offices also have Closed late, 84.24% in Font-Vert (14 e ). Cities of Northern and Eastern as the puperized areas of the hypercentre of which he is a member of Parliament, have plebiscite Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
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