Is it Father's Day, the good weather, the easing of restrictions that put wings in the shoes?
The participation in the first round of the regional and departmental elections amounts to 26.72% this Sunday at 5 p.m.
This is worse than the 43.01%% observed at the same time on December 6, 2015 for the previous regional ones, and 42.98% in March 2015 for the departmental ones.
🇫🇷 # Departmental and regional elections2021: participation rate at 5 p.m. in metropolitan France: 26.72% pic.twitter.com/FuTdFbTtbN
- Ministry of the Interior (@Interieur_Gouv) June 20, 2021
At noon, this sharp drop was already being felt: 12.22% participation nationwide.
This is worse than the 16.27% observed in the first round of regional 2015 and 18.02% in the first round of departmental nine months earlier.
The abstention record, at 53.67%, for a first round of the regionals dates from 2010, when the midday turnout was 16.07%.
This record therefore has a good chance of being broken during this last electoral meeting before the presidential election 300 days.
