LE FIGARO.
- Why such an overwhelming abstention?
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Regional elections 2021: discover all the results
Frédéric DABI. -
The level reached by abstention is indeed historic. France had never seen such a thing in a two-round ballot under the Fifth Republic. The 2000 referendum on the five-year term, with even lower participation, remains a special case. This time, according to our estimates, 68% of voters, or 32.5 million French people are in a situation of electoral exile, or even secession. This result is also part of an abstentionist cycle: since the election of Emmanuel Macron, less than one in two voters has taken part in the successive ballots (legislative, European, municipal and today departmental as well as regional) that have taken place. during the five-year term. In 1984, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing published a book entitled
Deux Français sur troi
s on the principles which could unite two thirds of our fellow citizens.
In this first round, which brought together more than two out of three French people,
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