In the offices of the working-class neighborhoods of the Marseille city, which gave important scores to Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round, the participation is stable.
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Dubitative pout as the only answer. As a question of whether his voters of the first round were mobilized this Sunday, April 24, Jean-Luc Mélenchon made the grimace. “Me, I’m here,” said the candidate of the Popular Union, at the exit of his polling station of 2 e arrondissement of Marseille, around 11 am
Fifteen days earlier, 108,423 Marseille voters gave their voices to the leader of rebellious France, largely placing it in the lead (31.12 %) in the second city in France. Will they be at the rendezvous of the second round and the Macron-Le Pen duel? At the country level, it is one of the keys to the ballot. In Marseille, the mayor Benoît Payan and most of his majority of the left, environmentalist and citizen gave the instructions to vote for Emmanuel Macron to do “hate dam”, which represents in their eyes Marine Le Pen.
But in the offices, each watch out for the participation rate. At noon, it is ultimately slightly increasing across the city (24.97 % against 24.78 % in the first round) and does not seem to be brutal degradation. Before the opening of the offices, the number of proxies recorded gave a first element: it was surprisingly stable around the 14,950 documents.
“The debate was not used to convince”
at the Arenc-Bachas school, the morning started slowly. In this magnificent set of recently renovated bricks, placed in a difficult area of 15 e arrondissement, it took half an hour to see the tenth voter slide his bulletin in the ballot box. The fault of the rain, surely, which tumbles over Marseille. On the holidays, of which this is the last weekend here. But also in the casting of the second round, in this office where Jean-Luc Mélenchon won 61.12 % of the votes, fifteen days earlier. “It will be complex today,” predicts the president of the office, Gilbert Spinelli. First deputy in the sector elected on the lists of Samia Ghali, this retiree does not hide his perplexity in front of the last days of the campaign. “And the debate was not used to convince,” he continues. Macron was bored and Le Pen was not up to the task. “
The debate is however what prompted Ourida, 58, who wants to remain anonymous, a melenchonist voter in the first round, to come and vote. “I hesitated but I did not like Macron’s attitude at all”, she creaks.
Clacks on the feet, Elegant tracksuit and hat, ADEM GACEB, 20, came to vote “for the one [he] hates the least” . Student in BTS, he joined the Popular Union program and regrets the absence of his candidate in the second round. “Young people and students who mobilized fifteen days ago will not come today,” he predicts, based on discussions around him.
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