In Paris, Emmanuel Macron took him nearly 90% in the second round of the 2017 presidential election. It is not certain that he performs the same performance in 2022.
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By leaving the polling station of poplars, in the 13 e Arrondissement of Paris, Sedo Koukoui is still half angry. In the first round, this master swimmer, Street-artist at his own hours, had chosen Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a logical candidate for this man engaged in many fights – “Yesterday again, we were on strike on the working time”. And here this Sunday, April 24, he no longer has the choice between a president he accuses of having roof the means of public services, and a woman of the far right. In front of this dilemma, “I almost did not vote,” he says. He finally resolved to slip a Macron newsletter into the ballot box. “I’m Franco-Beninese, do you think I can vote what?”
In 2017, Emmanuel Macron had totally dominated the second round of the presidential election in Paris, bringing together 89.68% of the votes cast, against 10.32% for Marine Le Pen. He had carried it in all the boroughs, from right to left, and each of the 896 voting offices of the capital. This time, will he succeed the same Grand Chelem, with such a massive score?
Nothing certain. In the first round, Emmanuel Macron came back to the lead in Paris, with 35.34% of the votes cast, in front of Jean-Luc Mélenchon (29.93%). Marine Le Pen, she finished only in sixth position, with 5.54% of the votes. But Emmanuel Macron no longer has the same image as 2017. Marine Le Pen, for his part, can hope to recover some of Eric Zemmour’s voters, the third man of the first round in Paris, who collected 8.2 % of the vote, and obtained significant scores in the “beautiful neighborhoods” as the 16 e district.
“I made myself having!”
“I voted Macron, but it really shook me”, recognizes David, an official of the Ministry of the Interior who saw Boulevard Kellermann (13 e ), who prefers to remain anonymous. In the first round, this right man had chosen Valérie Pécresse, even though he would have preferred that Xavier Bertrand won the primary organized by the Republicans. In the second, he chose the outgoing president backwards: “He did not take the right measures during COVID, we would probably have fewer confinements, and more freedom,” he said. The fear of an election of Marine Le Pen, however, carried away: “She does not have the build of a head of state.”
“I almost always voted left”, confides shortly after Sébastien, a soldier who lives in a barracks of 13 e arrondissement. In 2017, he had chosen Emmanuel Macron in the first round. “For me, he was left … I made myself have!” One fifth later, he decided that we would not resume. However, impossible to vote Le Pen. “I have Métis children, I’m anti-far-right,” he slipped. After supporting Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round, he deposited a white newsletter this Sunday. A first for this 52-year-old man. “I thought a lot, but I do not want Macron to have 60% of the voices, so I did not vote for him.” He marks a break, and resumes: “I hope I did not have wrong, and I do not like it tonight so marine the pen is finally elected … “
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