They also vote.
Never before have so many detainees turned to the polls as for this presidential election.
And they should be as numerous in the second round as in the first.
Of 69,448 detainees in French prisons, if we remove the 17,198 foreigners, 30% of them filed a ballot in the first round.
13,672 voted by mail, 768 people through an electoral proxy and 1,314 people through an exit permit.
A record figure since during the previous elections, in 2021, for the regional ones in particular, there were only 5,895 detainees registered on an electoral list.
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In 2017, when postal voting was not yet possible, only 1,053 inmates voted, by proxy or with permission.
The current mobilization therefore owes everything to the 2019 reform, the principle of which was to bring the polling station to the detainee rather than the reverse.
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