Fifteen million abstainers and some lessons.
The first round of regional and departmental elections, Sunday, June 20, was unlike any other ballot, so many voters deserted the ballot boxes.
The day after the vote, and less than a year from the 2022 presidential election,
Le Figaro
draws the five lessons that are needed.
To discover
Regional elections 2021: discover all the results
● A record abstention (66.7%)
Is it the testimony of an indifference, even a disaffection for political life?
The result of a lack of communication from the State, against the backdrop of a campaign limited by health constraints?
Two out of three French people (66.7%) did not vote on Sunday.
Never has an election mobilized so little voters under the Fifth Republic, with the exception of the referendum establishing the five-year term in 2000 (69.8%).
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The strongest abstention was noted in the Grand Est (70.4%), Pays de la Loire (69.3%), Île-de-France (69.1%) and Guadeloupe (69.1%) %).
Conversely, the voters who expressed themselves the most were in Corsica (42.9%), in Occitanie
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