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La Semaine du FigaroVox - "Legislative: when citizens desert the ballot box"

2022-06-17T18:35:04.151Z


Find every Saturday the selection of FigaroVox: decryptions, points of view and controversies. Dear subscribers, To discover Find all the results of the legislative elections If the presidential majority and the Nupes arrived neck and neck on June 12, abstention was, as we know, the most striking fact of the first round. With a turnout that painfully reached 47.51%, these elections recorded the highest abstention rate since 1958 for legislative elections. More than one in two French peop


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  • Find all the results of the legislative elections

If the presidential majority and the Nupes arrived neck and neck on June 12, abstention was, as we know, the most striking fact of the first round.

With a turnout that painfully reached 47.51%, these elections recorded the highest abstention rate since 1958 for legislative elections.

More than one in two French people entitled to vote did not go to the polls.

The philosopher Robert Redeker deplores this unprecedented situation: “

We will be governed in a few days by a majority which, in the first round of the legislative elections, will have represented 25% of 48% of the voters, in other words we will be led by a narrow minority

”.

According to him, citizens no

longer “recognize their citizenship as constitutive of their being.

Nor of their psychological being,

".

For Arnaud Benedetti, this "

civic disaffection and partisan fragmentation

" now constitute the bedrock of our political life.

The political tripartition is confirmed and attests...

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