In some departments, the electoral protest, which schematically aggregates abstainers, white votes, null and in favor of candidates strongly challenging the established order, exceeded 75% of registrants.
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It may be in these territories that the second round of the presidential election is played. In this France where the electoral protest reached peaks on April 10th.
In the Aisne, the Pyrénées-Orientales, the Moselle or Bouches-du-Rhône, we obviously no longer believe in government parties, or even the political system. In these departments, seven in ten out of ten voters have spoken first either by voting for a candidate who strongly challenging the established order and how the policy has been conducted in France for decades (Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon , Eric Zemmour or Jean Lassalle); either by voting white; either by absent. If we include the vote for the Communist Fabien Roussel and the voids are 78.6% of the citizens enrolled in the electoral lists of the Eastern Pyrenees who have expressed their dissatisfaction or their indifference. The rate is 77.4% in Bouches-du-Rhône, 77.3% in the AISNE, 76.4% in Haute-Marne or 75.6% in Moselle.
Admittedly, as the Dominique Reinned Politist recalls, professor at Sciences Po Paris, the trend is national since this “France of the No” today brings together 55.6% of voters who vote, and 68% of the registrants. And the notion of electoral protest contains many nuances.
“What is voted for a protest party or abstain, the motivations are not always the same,” said Jerome Fourquet, director of the IFOP Opinion and Corporate Strategies. among Abstractists, there are dropped people who lose interest in politics. They are different from the Zemmourists who watch CNEWS loop. “And some voters of Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Mélenchon choose these candidates by membership of defended ideas or programs. , and not to only express a disenchantment or a refusal of the system.
Rejection of the institutions
But the work of Dominique Reyné, also Director General of the Foundation for Political Innovation, Circle of Reflection “Liberal, Progressive and European”, show that for thirty years, a disgusted or angry France expresses more in More strongly at each ballot his dissatisfaction.
In 1970, the American researcher Albert Hirschman wrote that unhappy citizens adopt at the choice one of these behaviors: the acceptance of the status quo and the resigned participation (Loyalty), protest and anger (Voice) or The disinterest (exit).
In the territories where the electoral protest is the strongest, abounds Jérôme Fourquet, “are accumulated a disinterest for the political and a very strong protest. This can be of a social nature, especially in the modest electorate, or policy if more radical solutions are supported than those of government parties “. The “highly pronounced” rejection of politics and parties does not spare the institutions.
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