Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the Insoumis, worried about "a civic strike", "a form of cold insurrection against all the institutions of the country" Sunday, on the evening of the second round of the municipal elections marked by a very strong abstention. "It is therefore a complicated, dangerous moment in the life of the nation before us," he said, when more than six in ten voters shunned the ballot box.
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"It is very difficult to learn from a situation in which so many people abstain, where there is such a civic void standing in front of the lists," he continued, adding that the elections municipal "will have especially provided for the aggravation of the civic crisis in this country".
"The hour of political renewal which must strike"
“It is therefore the hour of political renewal which must strike. So it's time for the big change, big change in institutions, big change in social policies, big change in ecological policies and of course, it is not with those in place that this change can take place ”, a he developed.
He also underlined "a massive failure of the party of the President of the Republic, La République en Marche", while he compared the "remarkable" success of EELV to "a form of political consolidation against those who change their etiquette and role along the way ”, evoking the cities in which the former socialist mayors had passed through LREM.
Three months after a first round already upset by the coronavirus crisis, this second round was again marked by a participation rate at half mast, between 40% and 41% according to estimates, against 62.1% in 2014. Despite precautions exceptional sanitary facilities (wearing a mandatory mask in polling stations, hydroalcoholic gel) and the ebb of the epidemic, a large majority of the 16.5 million voters called to vote in 4,820 communes shunned the voting booths. , less than one voter in two - 44.3%, compared to 63.5% in 2014 - had come to vote in the first round. What raise the "concern" of Emmanuel Macron, for whom this abstention is "not very good news", according to the Elysee.
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