Florin Hossu, edited by Gauthier Delomez 06:10, April 12, 2022
Despite his plebiscite in the overseas territories, Jean-Luc Mélenchon failed to qualify for the second round of the presidential election.
If he did not give specific voting instructions, the candidate still invited his voters not to vote for Marine Le Pen.
Europe 1 met Martinican voters, sometimes confused.
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"No vote for Mrs. Le Pen", repeated Jean-Luc Mélenchon the evening of the first round.
If the candidate of La France insoumise failed to make it to the second round of the presidential election, he was acclaimed in the overseas territories, and in particular in Martinique where he collected more than 53% of the votes.
So, for the second round which opposes Emmanuel Macron to Marine Le Pen, the choice promises to be more difficult for voters still stunned by these results.
"I really expected a Macron-Mélenchon second round," said Harold, one of them, at the microphone of Europe 1.
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The Martinican voter now sees no satisfactory outcome in the aftermath of the second round.
"I really have a hard time understanding these elections, with all that has happened, the movements that have taken place", he explains, specifying that he had "not yet succeeded in taking all the information to understand what really happened".
A record abstention rate in the second round in 2017
Nevertheless, for other voters who slipped a Jean-Luc Mélenchon ballot into the ballot box, there is no doubt for the second round despite the absence of a clear voting instruction.
Gaëlle will vote in two weeks and her choice is already final: "I absolutely do not want Marine Le Pen to pass. So it will be Macron."
In 2017, during the first Macron-Le Pen duel in Martinique, seven out of ten voters voted for the candidate of the Republic on the move.
The abstention rate, on the other hand, had reached record levels: one out of two Martinicans had gone to a polling station.