Regional: the disinterest of the French for the vote worries the political class
54% of registered voters intend to abstain from the first round of regional elections on June 20 (against 49.91% in 2015), according to another Ifop poll for the JDD carried out on June 8 and 9.
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Five days before the departmental and regional elections, concern is mounting in the political parties.
According to projections by the Ifop Fiducial polling institute, up to 60% of voters could abstain with unforeseeable consequences on the results.
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Aurélien Devernoix
Olivier Becht had campaigned for a postponement to the fall, or even to the post-presidential election, of the double departmental and regional elections.
The massive abstention that could occur on Sunday therefore does not surprise the deputy Agir: “
The real concern is that we were not able to conduct an electoral campaign as we are used to doing.
Really impossible to go door-to-door, no possibility of having large public meetings.
I think that we would have been more inspired to hold these polls when we were, in any case, a little more sure of being able to carry out an electoral campaign as we are used to conducting them ”.
Truncated campaign
A truncated campaign, but also a form of general weariness linked to both the health crisis and a political debate vampirized by the presidential election, considers for his part the deputy Les Républicains Philippe Gosselin.
For him, these are two categories of voters who will move: party loyalists and discontented: “The
more anti-systems move with low turnout, the greater their relative weight.
This can open the door to all surprises ”.
Sunday, June 20, abstention could in any case be the first party of a paradoxical France on the subject.
According to a study commissioned by the newspaper
Liberation
, 8 out of 10 French people say they are concerned about the desertion of the ballot boxes
.
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