In Nantes, the civic bus which allows you to register on the electoral rolls, until this Friday evening, is experiencing a “peak influx”
"20 Minutes" met these voters who go about it at the last moment.
“It's been on my
to-do list
for three months , but I was lazy!
This Friday, Lucie had no choice.
To be able to slip her ballot into the ballot box during the presidential election, it was now or never for this Nantes woman, who recently moved, to register on the electoral lists.
While the online platform has been closed since Wednesday, it was still possible for latecomers to go to the town hall until this evening.
Since this morning, Nantes residents have also been waiting in front of the civic bus, which has been experiencing a “peak influx” for a few days, according to the municipality.
After touring the neighborhoods for a month, he is parked in the city center until 7 p.m., next to the skatepark, for his final stop.
A dented identity card in hand, Al Hassane climbs into the vehicle, where two agents chain the files.
Whoever voted for Sarkozy in 2007 had not been to a polling station since, so much so that he thought, wrongly, that he was struck off the lists.
“I thought for a long time that I didn't care, but here we have to do something, thinks this 42-year-old man.
The cost of living, salaries… it became too difficult.
I hope that by voting, things can change.
It remains to be seen for whom!
»
Like him, many of the people I meet here have not yet made their choice.
But it is a first step, they say, most often taken by chance.
“I saw the bus on my way to work and fortunately I had an invoice in my emails [an identity document and proof of residence is required to register], confides a restaurateur, so far registered in Brittany, in the town where his parents live.
Now that it's done, I'm going to vote, yes, but out of civility.
Out of spite too, it's still sad!
»
“The most important election”
As with a certain number of French people, doubts still hover seriously among those who manifest themselves
in extremis
.
Samy, who was not discouraged by this "bug" that occurred when registering online, goes through the programs and has even downloaded the Elyze app, to help him with his decision.
It is Anne Hidalgo who would be closest to his ideas, but she "lacks charisma", regrets the dental surgery student, concerned about ecological issues.
An opinion shared by Steven, who had not voted for four years, but who wants to weigh in the presidential election, "the most important of the elections".
By elimination, he will vote Macron, "an excellent orator who knows what he is talking about".
“We work, we look for labor and we can't find it.
Meanwhile, others stay at home doing nothing,” says the young butcher, who had “zapped the need to register.”
In front of the bus, the current president who has just announced his candidacy is popular with some voters we have met.
“Given the current situation, I think I will vote for him,” says Marine, who came to try to register her spouse.
He is at the heart of the negotiations over Ukraine, this is not the time for him to hand over.
"" For me it's no, he did not succeed in reducing inequalities, on the contrary, believes Cindy, 29, who intended to support Christiane Taubira before she threw in the towel.
I would like France to finally measure up when it says: Liberty, equality, fraternity.
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