A long Sunday of reunion with the polls. Long, yes, like a voting day without voters. At 5 p.m., the participation rate was only 39.42%. This is 1.3 points less than in 2017, when abstention that year became a majority for the first time (with 51.3%) during the legislative elections. An uninterrupted progression for thirty years: it was only 31.09% in 1993.
However, nearly two months after Emmanuel Macron’s reappointment to the Elysée, the June 12 and 19 election presents a decisive challenge: it is a question, by choosing 577 deputies from nearly 6,300 candidates, of giving the means the President of the Republic to implement his program or to impose on him a cohabitation with an opposition Prime Minister. On the evening of Friday June 10, a final Ipsos-Sopra Steria survey conducted for The world anticipated a contested election.
Together Candidates! – coalition bringing together La République en Marche, Horizons and the MoDem – totaled 28% of the voting intentions. Those on the left received 27%. The National Rally was left behind (19%, but 24.5% for the far right with the Reconquête! party of Eric Zemmour). The left, under the colors of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes, which brings together La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, the French Communist Party and Europe Ecologie-Les Verts), set in motion a buoyant dynamic during the campaign. Will it be confirmed if voters shun polling stations?
“We don’t care about all that”
This Sunday, the thermometer approaches 30° C in the Lyon region. And for Alexandra and Dimitri, both 32, the choice is made. The couple go for a walk in the shaded paths of the large Parilly park, in Bron (Rhône), holding the hand of Gabriel, their 2-year-old son. “This time, I’m not going to vote. We don’t understand much about it. I voted for the presidential election, it was useless”says Alexandra, director of an interim agency, who prefers not to give her name. “It’s always the same, we ended up voting against in the second round. The day when the vote will be representative and more proportional, I will come back to vote”adds Dimitri, who is no longer even registered on an electoral list.
Sun and disillusion. The cocktail could turn out to be very bitter for the first round of legislative elections. When we talk about the ballot with Pauline, installed on the Almanarre beach, in Hyères (Var), the young woman replies: ” It’s today ? » Beside her, Sylvain, her husband, builds sand castles with their daughter, Lucie. The couple came down from their small town on the heights of Toulon to enjoy a Sunday “without a job”, and did not plan to vote. Politics, “it’s not [leur] thing “explains this 25-year-old special education teacher who works with autistic adults. “Actually, I don’t understand anything about it”she continues, castigating the politicians: “Looks like they speak for themselves. They all express themselves in terms that are far too technical, and very quickly, it evaporates into absurd figures. Three billion is abstract to us. And then, they talk to us about Europe, about the world… We don’t care about all that. We want to know what will happen to us, in our everyday life. » Last week, Pauline filled up at 103 euros. For her, that “it’s concrete”.
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