Océane Théard, edited by Laura Laplaud 7:23 a.m., April 26, 2022

Should we fear the worst for the next legislative elections?

In other words, a record abstention rate, even more than in 2017 when already more than half of the voters had not come to choose their deputies.

A trend confirmed for example by the presidential election in Louviers, in the Eure, where Europe 1 went.

Never had the second round of the presidential election attracted so little voters.

Abstention at 28%, a level not reached since 1969. Voters particularly shunned the ballot boxes in the department of Eure in Normandy.

In the commune of Louviers, for example, the abstention record was beaten: 36% in the second round.

Loverians who do not seem determined to go to the polls for the legislative elections in June.

Record abstention possible

A quiet little town, a church, a supermarket, nearly 12,000 souls, a third of whom abstained in the second round of the presidential election.

So the June election seems very far away for Charles, on a cigarette break in front of his downtown shop where he repairs computers: "For the legislative elections, I may be abstaining, I don't know...", he breathes.

"It's a political chessboard and the game is blocked."

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A crossroads further, music escapes from Lauralys, a small bar in the city center where Miraj finishes his long coffee.

He did not vote in the presidential election and for the legislative elections, the question is settled.

"I won't go because in fact, I think it's already calculated in advance so I won't vote for it," he says.

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For her part, Céline, manager of the establishment since the end of January 2020, the legislative elections are "useless".

"Today, it will not change anything, it is the president who decides, not the deputies so that does not interest me", she maintains.

A high rate of abstention is therefore possible in this Norman town.

In 2017, it had reached 63% in the second round of the legislative elections.