They are nearly 49 million registered on the electoral lists.
As the legislative elections approach and abstention was high during the presidential election, some will not be able to move to their polling station to slip a name from the ballot box.
The only solution: vote by proxy.
Here is a user manual, all the details of which can be found on the website of the Ministry of the Interior.
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How to give your power of attorney?
You can make your power of attorney in two ways.
The first is to
submit an online request
on the maprocuration.gouv.fr website and identify yourself with FranceConnect.
There are several steps to follow: you must first identify yourself, then indicate the municipality in which you are voting.
Then, specify the choice of the voter number and the date of birth of your representative
or
his marital status and his commune/consulate of vote.
You will have to go to a gendarmerie brigade, a police station or a consulate for the authorities to verify your identity, with your identity document and the reference of your power of attorney request (which should have been sent to you by email after validation of your request).
Once this step is completed, you will receive an email indicating that it has been validated.
Finally, once the email entitled "Your proxy has been validated", your proxy can go to your polling station to slip a name into the ballot box for you.
The other way is
to go directly to a police station
, to a gendarmerie brigade or to the judicial or local court.
Once there, and provided with an identity document, you can fill out a Cerfa form to request a proxy vote.
How to choose your agent?
You can entrust your vote
to any voter
of French nationality.
This, on several conditions.
He, like you, must be registered on an electoral list - without it being compulsory to be registered on the same.
On the other hand, your proxy must come to your polling station on polling day.
In addition, your proxy must not have reached the maximum proxy limit for a given poll.
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Where can you find your voter number?
This number can be found
on your electoral card
.
You can also find it by going through the module “questioning your electoral situation” on the service-public.fr site.
He then asks you to indicate your complete marital status, your commune or consulate of vote.
Until when can you make power of attorney?
You can make a proxy at any time,
there is no deadline
.
Of course, it is better to do it as soon as possible.
Once you have applied online, you can go to any police station the same day.
What to do if you are abroad?
Your online power of attorney request must be validated within two months by
your consulate or embassy
.
Do not hesitate to get in touch with the authorities closest to your home abroad.
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