Among the public figures supporting the candidate of France unsuitable for the first round of the presidential election, the refusal to slip a Macron newsletter expresses high and strong, in the name of the refusal of “moral lessons” and of the perennial brutality of the outgoing president.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon repeatedly repeated it, the evening of the results of the presidential election: “Do not give one voice to M me Le Pen!” Did not call for voting for Emmanuel Macron, the vehemence of his call accredited the idea of a fighting vote against the far-right candidate. A form of inflection compared to 2017, when the wording had been more ambiguous. Now, a fuzzy contour consultation must be organized among the 310,000 people who supported his candidacy. Three options should be offered, the same as in 2017: abstain, vote white, vote for Emmanuel Macron. Already, polls report a possible scattering of the left, between Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen, and abstention.
According to IFOP projections for Paris Match and South Radio published Monday, April 11, 39% of Jean-Luc Mélenchon voters in the first round would be willing to vote for the outgoing president in the second, but 41% would prefer to vote white or no, or abstain. They will finally be 20% to slip a loan newsletter into the ballot box. The proportions are similar among the voters of the ecologist Yannick Jadot, who called from 8:30 pm, Sunday, “to bare at the far right by depositing, in the ballot box, a newsletter Emmanuel Macron on April 24”, Clear instructions that does not prevent his electorate from dispersing.
“I can not give quitus there, right away”
On the left, the only candidate to publicly assume white vote on April 24, is Nathalie Arthaud. “The workers do not have to endorse their votes their future oppressor”, she writes in a statement. Around Jean-Luc Mélenchon, they are many to advocate too. Free of their word, personalities who joined him in recent months made their choice. And the Macron vote is the subject of a deep release. The writer Annie Ernaux, for example, believes in a liberation interview: “No need to tell you that I will never vote Marine Le Pen, I will always fight it. But I do not mean, there today, in the aftermath From the first round, which I will vote Macron. For those fifteen days, it is necessary to interrogate, demand answers and commitments. I can not give quitus right away, at Macron, it is not possible. “