With an estimated abstention at more than 25%, many electors were remanded from the booths. Narrative of a day of voting in France by our special envoys.
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On vacation at the meeting, Guillaume, 27, and his friend Lucile, 25, would have liked to vote but did not want to cancel this trip from which they have been dreaming for a long time. “The proxy vote is the headache. Too complicated,” says Guillaume, who resides in Bordeaux. “Life is more enjoyable here than in a booth”, has been having fun, 25 years old, who has been picking with friends. On the beach of Boucan Canot, in the west of the island, the water is turquoise and the flag of bathing orange due to a slight swell. But the crushing sun encourages regular dips in the authorized area, behind the antirequins. The saleswoman recognizes that she does not “focus on elections”. So much so that it has never voted. “I do not see what it can change. I do not feel concerned. And Macron, I do not know.”
At 5 pm, three hours before the end of the poll, the participation in the first round of the presidential was 65%. It is only four points less than in 2017. But in 2007 the rate was 74% … In this sunny weekend, starting easter school holidays for zone B, some voters had the heads elsewhere. .
but not all. Many others have voted. And their mood was not spring. The expensive life, rising prices, the difficulties of the daily weigh. For Magalie Colle, this Sunday, it will be “vote of anger, anger stronger than usual, because we have the right to nothing”. Like others, installed in the shade of the sun of a bus stop from Lille-Fives, she waits to go to the market. She works in a retirement home. “At 50, said Magalie Colle, I earn 1,000 euros as a maintenance agent. He who depends on state aid gains more than me. It’s not normal.”
What remains “yellow vests” planar on the poll. In Grand Bourgtherould (Eure), where Emmanuel Macron (the Republic in March, LRM) had begun the “great national debate” in 2019, in response to the revolt, Florence and Hubert entrust they supported them, even if they Have not run a roundabout: “Everyone is suffering indirectly,” they say, evoking their more and more “riquiqui” shopping cart and the pump prices that explode. The house is paid, “Fortunately”. The big debate? “All that for that”, sighs Florence, 62 years old, coming out of the polling station, his cigarette in his hand. In 2017, the couple had voted Macron, and both towers. “But not this time.” Today, the couple wanted to “sanction” macron, without specifying for the benefit of which candidate.
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