They chose the vote together! To block the new ecological and social popular union, present in the second round in several constituencies.
She is not used to coming so early to the market but, this afternoon, it is Father’s Day and they will be eleven at the table around Djibril, 83 years old. It lacks fresh coriander for the salad of grated carrots and oriental pastries for dessert. “Yes, we are with the family when it’s Ramadan, but also for Fathers’ Day, like you. We are well integrated, right?” Hapits Leila Haffas, secretary in a car garage who does not know The crisis.
Elector in the Roubaisian 8th district of the North, she did not hesitate between the outgoing deputy Catherine Osson, a socialist who joined the Republic on the legislative elections of 2017, and the thirty -something David Guiraud, “National speaker of the France Insoumise (LFI) “, as he describes himself. “These people do us wrong,” deplores Leila. “He had invited this young excited guy who tells anything”, whose name she forgot. She talks about Taha Bouhafs, who was to be the guest of David Guiraud’s first campaign event in Roubaix, but ultimately become too bulky to hold the poster with him. “He says that there is no problem of radical Islam here but we, the Muslims, we are the first to be annoyed with these people,” says Leila, who “votes Macron because he wants Do something against the bearded people “. She does not know the deputy together !, Arrived in second position at the end of the first round (24.16 % against 39.83 for David Guiraud), but “no question of voting for a candidate of Mélenchon, and at home, We all vote the same “.
A few hundred meters from this large popular market, in the privileged district of one of the poorest cities in France, Ghislaine and Jean-Pierre walk their dog at the Barbieux park. These two retirees live a residence with a view of the big trees. “It bothers me a little to vote for a former socialist, but since Fillon was beaten, we made a reason,” says Jean-Pierre, who was a family doctor and “finds that the president does not manage not so bad “. With his wife, he has been traveling a lot since he closed his cabinet “and, frankly, when we compare France with what we see elsewhere, we do not want to end up with leftist leftists”.
“We are not revolutionaries”
A young couple descends from the tram on the alley bordered by beautiful houses, symbols of the time of the splendor of Roubaix, linked to the textile industry. They come from Lille to see the exhibition on Banksy presented in the former Banque de France, on the occasion of the Urbx festival, which animates Roubaix from June 16 to 26. Stéphane Montcourt is an executive at the headquarters of a distribution company which he prefers not to quote, his companion is a midwife at the Lille University Hospital. “We are not revolutionaries and, frankly, Mélenchon Prime Minister, that would be the nightmare. Macron could not make the reforms we need,” said Stéphane, just in his forties and young dad, who “comes from a right -wing family “. Isabelle will also vote for Violette Spillebout, the candidate together! From the 9
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