INTERVIEW
It's a sad record. According to estimates by three polling institutes, participation in the second round of municipal elections was to be between 40 and 41% when all the polling stations were closed. A figure never recorded for this usually popular ballot among the French, which worries Adrien Quatennens. Invited to the special edition of Europe 1 on the evening of the second round of the municipal elections, the rebellious deputy from the North of France recalls that this Sunday evening marks above all the people's disinterest in this election. "What worries us is the considerable abstention (60%), a sign of the agony of a Fifth Republic ending."
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"People don't stay at home not pretending"
"There is an institutional problem, and when we say that abstention has political significance it is true, people do not stay at home not pretending," said the deputy. "The French mean something politically by abstaining. In essence they say to us, 'since that's how it is, manage without us'," he analyzes. "The people no longer agree to a rule of the game to which they are called, so we must allow them to redefine it themselves," said the deputy.
A Sixth Republic to fight abstention?
If he does not specify the nature of the change he defends, he is helped to know what the member is referring to, since a move to the Sixth Republic is defended by the leader of his party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon , since many years. The idea was even already present in his 2012 presidential program.