Will social networks make the presidential election?

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The 2022 campaign is done as much in a traditional way as on social networks.

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By: Philippe Lecaplain

1 min

Today, like yesterday and like tomorrow, each of us will have looked at the screen of our mobile phone 221 times.

Or twenty times every hour.

How much time will we spend in the polling station on April 7 for the first round of the presidential election?

About ten minutes.

And again, for those who will make the trip.

Let us remember that last year for the regional elections, nearly 7 out of 10 French people did not go to vote.  

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If the traditional campaign (meetings, debates, tracts) has only just begun, the digital battle is already electrifying social networks.

The Internet has become a new space for political competition.

Have social networks become a full-fledged leg of political communication?

Will social networks make the presidential election?

This is the question of the Debat du Jour on RFI. 

With : 

Nelly Garnier

, elected representative of Paris and elected regional LR, director of the

, author of 

Grégoire Cazcarra

, co-creator of the Elyze application which allows you to choose who to vote for, and author of the book 

Virginie Martin

, political scientist at 

, author of the article 

published on the site

and the book

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