Jacques wears a broad smile under his straw hat.
Above him, the neon signs of his phone shop flicker.
At the corner of boulevard Barbès and rue des Poissonniers in Paris (18th arrondissement), the day begins to decline on a Parisian Sunday between sun and cloud.
Jacques harangues passers-by in this working-class district in the north of the capital: “Come on, let’s celebrate Macron’s victory, phones at 45 euros!
It's a little after 8 p.m.
The merchant has just seen the results of the second round of the presidential election displayed on his mobile.
According to the first estimates, the outgoing president (LREM) is re-elected with 58.8% of the vote, against 41.2% for the candidate of the National Rally (RN).
“I am relieved, blows the forties.
Marine Le Pen is racist.
She scares us.
We have to stop this woman.
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“It sucks more and more!
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However, Jacques did not go to vote this Sunday.
" Did not have time ".
In the first round, like many 18th century voters, he had slipped a Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) ballot into the ballot box.
On April 10, the Insoumis came well ahead in the borough, with 41.70% of the vote.
Emmanuel Macron and his 29.03% had occupied second place.
And Marine Le Pen, fourth, had barely exceeded 5%.
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Jacques assures him: he would not have hesitated for a second in the voting booth this Sunday.
“If I could, I would have gone to vote Macron.
The French economy was going to collapse, he helped us with these measures, ”he certifies.
Around him, in these busy arteries, neither horns nor outpouring of joy.
Life seems to take its course, like any Sunday evening.
Maud and Anna walk down Boulevard Barbès towards République.
“We will see if there is a rally there”, slip these two intermittents of the show of 27 and 29 years.
Paris (18th century), this Sunday.
Maud and Anna, two residents of Barbès, slipped "death in the soul" a Macron ballot into the ballot box in the second round of the presidential election.
LP/Pauline Darvey
In their hands, signs announce the color: "And now the response", "If the FN brandishes its flame, I am there to extinguish it".
In the first round, these residents of Barbès also gave their voice to Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Then they hesitated for a long time, before going to slip, "death in the soul", a Macron bulletin this Sunday.
“But I had the fear of my life that Le Pen would pass, breathes Anna.
Especially when we saw his scores in Overseas in the afternoon, it sucks more and more!
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“Marine Le Pen only talks about immigration!
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Fatima-Camara was "confident".
“Marine Le Pen only talks about immigration, warns this fifty-year-old, shopkeeper in Goutte-d'Or.
But she forgets that many immigrants have the right to vote!
“She also voted for the outgoing president:” No choice!
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To vote or not… Christophe pondered the question until 8 p.m.
He finally chose to abstain.
"Viscerally, I could not vote Macron", assumes this convinced rebel, who has lived in the neighborhood for ten years.
But the sexagenarian already warns: "We will have to continue the fight in the street".
