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“This strange presidential campaign which arouses the perplexity of the French”

2022-02-11T19:53:44.539Z


TRIBUNE - In less than two months, the French will be called to the polls for the first round of the presidential election. However, never has a campaign for the election of the head of state taken place in such an atmosphere of disenchantment, argues the essayist Édouard Tetreau.


What currently characterizes our public life is boredom, wrote an editorialist shortly before May 68. The same feeling of collective boredom grips us a few weeks before a presidential election which seems to be played in advance, trivialized by a not candidate but given winner by all the bookmakers.

So from

The Economist

, which predicts re-election with a certainty rate of 79%.

The

New York Times

gave a similar forecast - 80% - for Hillary Clinton's election to the US presidential elections in 2016.

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France is so bored that it no longer bothers to choose its head of state.

The pollsters all point to the risk of massive abstention, of a particularly shifting and uncertain electorate, which will be decided at the last minute.

The soft, invisible and hybrid campaign, as one would say of a war in Ukraine, continues to unfold, however, in a general lethargy.

No doubt this is the tactical bet of the non-candidate president: to play the…

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Source: lefigaro

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