It is a subject which agitates and worries.
Five months from the presidential election, how many will the French be going to the polls?
With the ambition to mobilize the population, the Minister for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, announced a campaign to encourage voting planned for the beginning of January.
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We have observed that for several years now, ten to fifteen years, election after election, we have more and more abstention.
It explodes.
“Invited on
France Info
this Saturday, the minister was alarmed by the situation.
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It is obviously a democratic alert
," she said.
In the last regional elections, abstention reached a record rate of 66.7%.
While the municipal elections, organized a year earlier, had already marked the spirits by rising around 59%.
"These young people are not going to vote"
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I believe that no political party in this country can find satisfactory the fact that there are people who are not interested in the vote,
" said Marlène Schiappa.
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Especially since what we observe is that, especially among young people, (they) have rarely shown their commitment so much
", she continued, citing for example the climate, women's equality -men or animal welfare.
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And yet, these young people are not going to vote
", lamented the member of the government.
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For Marlène Schiappa, this is the case with the "
collective responsibility
" of "
remembering that the passage to action is done by voting
".
A “
big
” campaign to encourage voting must therefore be released by the beginning of January.
It will recall "
the
important
dates
" as well as "
the stakes of the vote to find this craze
".
Instructions will also be issued to facilitate registration on the electoral rolls, which is now possible up to a few weeks before the poll and not until December 31.
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