The candidate of the national gathering wins more than 60% of the voices in Guadeloupe and Martinique in the second round of the presidential election, realizing his best score in these two departments.
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Crossing the release of his polling station installed in the primary school of the Morne-Mahogany district, on the heights of the municipality of François, Hugues Ramanich adjusts his elegant straw hat, his sunglasses and advance of A dignified step, hanging on his daughter’s arm. “I voted for Marine Le Pen: you have to try to see,” Bouggle the retiree this Saturday, April 23, the day of the second round of the presidential election in Martinique. In this Caribbean department, as well as in other French communities located in the Americas, the ballot was anticipated a day due to the time difference.
“Macron has done nothing for us. The retreat is too low: I’m touching 800 euros a month!”, lament the septuagenarian, who ensures that he voted on the left all his life. Magali Ramanich Acquiesce. “I voted the pen in the first round too,” says the quadmenlay. “Too many young people are in the street, there is not enough work. Maybe the military service”, she suggests.
“Our president is bad!”
Like the two residents of this rural and green sector, many Martiniquais slipped into the ballot box a bulletin on behalf of Marine Le Pen. After a plebiscite for Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round of the presidential election, the national gathering candidate (NR) obtained, two weeks later, 60.87% of the votes cast, nearly three times his score of the second Tour of the 2017 presidential election in Martinique, a department where the far-right scores are usually low during local and national polls. Ms. Le Pen stands in the lead in 32 of the 34 municipalities of this island that it has never visited since its accession to the head of the far-right party, in 2011.
Below the windy crest of Morne-mahogany, in the center-town of François, a small town of 16,000 inhabitants, the populist right had broken a record in the first round: the candidate Eric Zemmour had collected 30.3% Savages expressed – ten times more than its score in the island – in the polling station n o 3, allocated to the upscale neighborhoods of Cap East and frigate. In the second round, the postponement of voice was made to the advantage of Marine Le Pen. “Our president is nil!”, Issue Faustine coming out of the building. This 23-year-old woman castigates “the management of immigration and COVID crisis” by the government. Freshly returned to Martinique after completing his studies in Paris, the one who is destined to become a teacher “in the private off-contract”, says also worry about the rise of insecurity in the country.
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