In the press - Municipal in France: "Ecology on the move"

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On the front page of the French press, reactions to the second round of the municipal elections, yesterday - a ballot marked by record abstention, for this type of election.

60% of the voters who did not go to vote: "A slap for democracy", according to Ouest France , which links this historic abstention to the "unprecedented delay of three months" between the two rounds and to the deconfinement: "The French n 'did not have the head to go to vote ”, analyzes the newspaper, by warning that this level of abstention“ is (however) not an incident of course only related to the circumstances ”. "Mitigating" Circumstances, Says L'Opinion- which also explains the abstention from yesterday by the delay between the two rounds, by the campaign "while being physically distant", the "vote under health constraints" and the "watered down electoral dramaturgy". The daily is alarmed by the "democratic disaster" which, according to him, would have resulted in "the anti-system brainwashing": "Everything was done to delegitimize this kind of election: haro on representative democracy, long live direct democracy. Stop politics, they are politicians. Congratulations to the citizens, they are what we are, real average French people ”.

The second round of municipal elections, also marked by the victory of environmentalists in several large cities. Lyon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Besançon, Tours, Poitiers: La Croix speaks of a "spectacular wave", born from the aspiration "of many French people, to an ecological shift". "The new ecological wave", also on the front page of Today in France . "For those who had analyzed the results of the Greens in the Europeans as an epiphenomenon, the vote of yesterday brings a serious denial", writes the newspaper, which sees there "a backdrop, carried by a collective awareness", " a powerful current, which has just overturned several of the largest cities in the country, and which has benefited those and those, like the socialist Anne Hidalgo in Paris, who knew how to anticipate the trend ”. "Ecology on the move": Liberation quips at the way environmentalists have managed to "take over from the macronists (and to their detriment), the torch of political renewal". The newspaper salutes the "brilliant victory" of the Greens, "carried by ecological awareness, undoubtedly favored by the examination of conscience imposed by confinement, reinforced by the mobilization of the young generations". A front page that echoes the one Liberation published on Saturday: "The Republic on the sidelines".

The Republic on the march suffers an even more severe defeat than announced. "Macronie Takes a Left": L'Humanité welcomes the "total failure" of "the strategy of local implantation" of the presidential party. "Victim of ecological aspirations, (but also) of the unpopularity of the president, and of the return of the right-left divide" - a return to the traditional divide which would have "swept away the macronist imposture, irremediably moored to the electorate of the Republicans" , according to Huma, who is also delighted, in passing, that the "flood" predicted by the National Rally has not taken place, even if Marine Le Pen will not fail to instrumentalize Louis' emblematic victory Aliot in Perpignan ”. The left not dead, the scathing failure of The Republic on the march: Le Figaro sees "the new stage supposed to save the end of the quinquennium" of Emmanuel Macron being "complicated" even more. But let the president be reassured, the newspaper has thought of the future: "Since the left is rising from the ashes, and there is little appearance that it is in its power to bring back to it those who lived the first three years of his five-year term as a betrayal, (Emmanuel Macron must) turn without procrastinating on the side where the voters who remain have him: in the center and on the right "- which implies, according to Le Figaro , that the Head of State keeps Prime Minister Edouard Philippe in his post.

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