Hundreds of students blocked the Sorbonne, Wednesday, April 13, to denounce the absence of climate issues during the campaign. They refer back to the back the two finalist candidates by giving no voting instructions for the second round of the presidential election.
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Blockages multiply in universities, especially in Paris, at the initiative of students who, in response to the first round results, have the wish to “appropriate the debate” of the inter- towers, without however giving a voting setpoint between the two finalist candidates of the presidential election.
Wednesday, April 13, at noon, at La Sorbonne, nearly 500 students held a general assembly in the Oury amphitheater. Nearly 200 still occupied the places, at the end of the afternoon. “We do not give voting instructions but, on the other hand, is called mobilization, blockade, action,” said the participants, qualifying “reactionary blackmail” the programs of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen .
In the ranks, many young people voted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “I am in a state of rage since the 10th of April, because the dam was in the first round that we could do it,” Loose Clara (the people cited by their first name did not wish to give their names), a student in Philosophy in Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, which plans to abstain in the second round. The girl ensures that “seasoned comrades” were placed in custody for ten hours for stuck posters of the Mélenchon candidate over Marine Le Pen. “But what is this democracy? How can we still believe in it when policemen behave like that?”, She interviews.
Julien still hesitates on the conduct to be held on April 24, even if he was tempted, like Clara, by “a widest possible abstention that would delegit the election”. “I’m going to found my decision on the latest polls and if Marine Le Pen is really about winning, then I’ll vote Macron, but so reluctantly …” Explain the one who perceives “many common points” between the two finalists , in particular on migration policy. “That of Emmanuel Macron has a deep-right inspiration,” says Julien.
A youth who felt “dispossessed”
They are rare, like Camille, student in letters, to fear the consequences of a massive abstention of young people. “We can not rely on the maturity of the legislative elections, warns the young man. With the 32% cumulative scores of Marine Le Pen, Eric Zemmour and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, I thought there would be there would be A huge reaction, but it is as if youth did not take the measure. “He resigned himself:” I will vote Macron, crying in the booth. “
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