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Schedules, electoral map, power of attorney, counting... 12 questions on the vote for the second round of the presidential election

2022-04-24T09:21:29.540Z


Le Parisien answers the many questions around the vote in the second round of the presidential election, opposing this Sunday April 24 Emmanu


Voters must decide, this Sunday, between the candidate of the Republic in motion Emmanuel Macron and the candidate of the National Rally Marine Le Pen.

When and how to vote for this second round of the presidential election?

How do I appeal if I am expelled?

Is an electoral card mandatory?

The Parisian answers your questions.

What are the opening hours of the polling stations?

Polling stations open in mainland France at 8 a.m. on Sunday April 24.

They will close there at 7 p.m. for the most part, or even 8 p.m. for those in large cities such as Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Lyon, Strasbourg or even Caen, Cannes or Montpellier.

Offices in medium-sized towns, but which are an integral part of a large metropolis, also often close at 8 p.m.

In certain territories subject to a significant time difference, abroad and overseas, voting takes place on Saturdays.

Can I vote without an electoral card?

The electoral card is not compulsory to vote, but it allows the members of the polling station to identify you more quickly.

A proof of identity with a photo, however, is mandatory in order to be able to slip a ballot into the ballot box.

How do I verify that I am registered on the electoral roll?

Thanks to a dedicated page on the website of the Ministry of the Interior, it is possible to check whether you are registered on the electoral lists.

You will also know in which office you are voting.

I don't know what my polling station is.

How to know?

The address of your polling station is on your electoral map.

But it is also possible, via the website of the Interior, to know in which office you must vote.

To do this, go to this page, fill in your identity (do not forget to indicate all your first names in the order of civil status, if you have several) and you will then have access to your electoral information.

How can I check that my power of attorney has been taken into account?

It is possible to check, via a page on the website of the Ministry of the Interior, whether your power of attorney has been taken into account.

To access it, simply enter your identity information.

On this same page, you can also check if someone has made a power of attorney in your favor.

What should I do if I realize that I have been expelled?

A voter removed from the electoral lists has the possibility of seizing the magistrate until the day of the election.

On the day of the vote, the courts of first instance hold meetings during which they rule without delay, in order to allow the voters concerned to be able to vote before the close of the poll.

This approach is permitted when the town hall of origin has not notified the voter of his deletion from the lists.

I have not received my professions of faith.

How can I still view them?

Normally, every elector must receive the professions of faith of the candidates before the ballot.

If this is not the case, it is possible to find them on a dedicated page, on the site of the National Commission for the Control of the Electoral Campaign in several formats: the classic format - which we usually receive, in Easy to read and understand (Falc) and in audio format.

Can I use the newsletters received at home?

With the professions of faith, voters also receive the ballots of the two candidates.

These, identical to those available in the polling station, can be slipped into the envelope on D-Day. It is still necessary to go to the voting booth.

In this case, it is not mandatory to take ballots from the table in the polling station.

What should I do if I want to vote blank?

To vote blank, all you have to do is put an empty envelope in the ballot box or introduce a blank sheet.

Anything else, apart from the ballots of both candidates, would be considered a spoiled ballot.

Since 2014, blank ballots are no longer counted as invalid ballots in the results.

How to participate in the counting?

Any citizen may participate in the counting of votes.

He can report it when he votes, but can also go to the polling station when it closes, just before the start of the count.

A mission can then be entrusted to him by the person in charge of the polling station if necessary.

Be that as it may, every voter has the right to be present at the counting.

When are the results known?

Before the closing of the last polling stations, at 8 p.m., it is not legally possible to broadcast the results of the elections in France, even if the counting is finished in the smallest towns, overseas or abroad. foreign.

It is therefore from this time that Le Parisien, in particular, will publish the estimates of the polling institutes and then the results, municipality by municipality.

The official and final result of the election is communicated by the Ministry of the Interior when all the polling stations are counted, in principle during the night of Sunday to Monday.

Can we trust the foreign media before 8 p.m.?

As with every election, Belgian and Swiss news sites plan to publish initial estimates of the results before 8 p.m.

"A large part of our audience is passionate about the elections, with a particularly marked interest in the French presidential election", explained before the first round, to Parisian, Richard Werly, Paris correspondent for the Swiss daily Le Temps.

If these French-speaking media remain secret about the source of such information, it may come from polls taken from the polls (in theory prohibited), feedback from the first counts from 7 p.m., etc.

But be careful: you have to be very careful.

During the first round, several estimates published from 6 p.m. gave, for example, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen neck and neck, while the candidate president ultimately collected almost five points more than the RN candidate.

"All this is not serious," thunders Jean-Pierre Pillon, permanent secretary of the Survey Commission.

Source: leparis

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