In Marseille as in Sarthe, Moselle, Rennes, Reunion or Seine-et-Marne, voters have sometimes encountered difficulties in making a choice.
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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 Melenchon 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, at the age of 11 hours .
Fifteen days earlier, the “rebellious” leader had come out in the lead (31.12 %) of the first round of the presidential election in the second city in France. Will they be there, marked by the Macron-Le Pen duel? At the country’s scale, it is one of the keys to the ballot.
For Zaïr Ouaret, 45, the idea of abstaining for a long time. “I told myself that we could do like in the United States when Trump was elected. For people to understand that Le Pen is not a president for all French people. But I got reasoned: it was too risky “, He says. Like the leader of rebellious France who, a few kilometers away, is about to vote, this childcare assistant already projects on the legislative elections which he envisages as a third round: “I look forward to them”, Trépigne- he.
“The vote was complicated”
Leaving the polling station of the Poplers’ Potellars, in the 13 e arrondissement of Paris, Sedo Koukoui is still half angry. In the first round, this lifeguard, street artist in his spare time, had also chosen Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a logical candidate for this man engaged in many fights-“Yesterday, we were on strike on working time “. And here in April 24, he has the choice only between a president whom he accuses of having crossed out the means of public services and a far -right woman. In front of this dilemne, “I almost did not vote,” he admits. He finally resolved to slip a Macron bulletin into the ballot box. “I am Franco-Beninese, do you think I can vote what?”
But others could not. This is the case of Maria, for example. She lives in Bray-sur-Seine, village of Seine-et-Marne, 2,200 inhabitants, several hundred of whom had put on a yellow vest, in November 2018, to proudly parade in the city center. Here, we don’t do anything without a car. “My husband, he works at an hour from here. For him, it’s a full per week, almost 100 euros,” said the 42 -year -old maternal assistant, in front of the village hall that hosts the two unique offices of Municipal vote. Voting was “important” for her. But for whom? In the first round, she had opted for Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In the second, she chose not to choose: “I put anything in the envelope.” Tied by the Pen vote, Maria did not dare: “I hesitated, but I said to myself that We may be more galley than anything else. “
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