Solène Leroux 06h13, April 09, 2022

The question torments hundreds of thousands of immunocompromised people.

While the presidential election is being held on Sunday, should they go to the polling station, make a power of attorney, or simply give up?

A debate revived by the possibility left to Covid-positive people to slip their ballot into the ballot box.

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A real dilemma.

Some 300,000 immunocompromised people are asking themselves the question of going to vote for the presidential election, while the last municipal elections, in the midst of the first wave of Covid-19 in France, had been criticized because of the health risks for the population.

The latest government announcement, that of letting people positive for the coronavirus go to vote, does not reassure the immunocompromised.

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Raymonde has breast cancer.

This 66-year-old woman has always voted and yet, this time, she will not slip her ballot into the ballot box, "for fear of catching it".

Just like his companion, so as not to bring the virus home.

"I live in a very small village" Burgundy, she explains at the microphone of Europe 1. "I think that they are not going to clean the voting booth after each one. They are not necessarily going to say that they have the Covid, we will be side by side, we will go after them in the voting booth… I will not go”, assures the retiree.

Fear of the outcome of the election

For her part, Jessika, on dialysis for 32 years, cuts the pear in half.

It will be a power of attorney.

She does not understand the announcement made by government spokesman Gabriel Attal at the end of March.

"Knowing that people can go to the polls completely positive, when even in town halls and for assessors, the mask will not be compulsory for election weekends, I find that completely shameful", annoys this resident of Pas-de-Calais.

On the contrary, for Karim, on immunosuppressants since a kidney transplant, the stakes are too high.

"With all those who run [for the presidential election], there are some among them who are still scary," he worries.

"I don't see why I will stay at home saying to myself: 'Hey, I'm immunocompromised, I'm not going to vote there.'

I'll put on the mask, I'll take the gel, and that's it."

Many precautions, failing to be able to make a power of attorney.

The 36-year-old Moselle will go to the polling station early to avoid crossing paths with people.