In the spotlight: the fear of abstention in the first round of the presidential election in France

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On D-2 of this vote that the Catholic daily The cross qualifies in One of crucial “, can abstention “ change everything “, wonders “in the headlines” Le Figaro. According to an Odoxa poll for the latter newspaper, 27.4% of French people may not vote. It’s very precise and it’s barely a point from the 2002 record, when abstention in the first round reached 28.4%. Another indication of this survey, 3 out of 10 voters who say they are certain to vote ” do not yet know for whom or may change their minds “. If we add to this that 12% of French people “ they do not know “that the first round is held this Sunday, Le Figaro qualifies these indications as nightmare for pollsters and analysts. However, this newspaper admits, at the end of a campaign disrupted by the health crisis, then by the war in Ukraine, rather dull on the front of ideas and of which it has long been said that the outcome was written in advance, there is nothing surprising that the polls reveal a certain demobilization of the population “.

This poll also indicates that abstention could be stronger among left-wing sympathizers

Enough to plunge into the “throes” this newspaper close to the left that is Release. Faced with the multiplicity of candidates on the left, this daily has decided. Freed advocates meaningful voting. The supporters of the candidates, ecologist Yannick Jadot, communist Fabien Roussel or socialist Anne Hidalgo “ must block from the first round and put a Mélenchon ballot in the ballot box », enjoins Release. Which newspaper warns: the second round ” is likely to be more terrible than ever “.

Obvious allusion to the prospect of a final duel identical to that of 2017. With however a difference in size, the weight henceforth of the vote to the right of the right

A vote that, without waiting for the verdict of the polls, the newspaper The echoes collected under the contemptuous term of ” populism “. On the strength of ” figures » Provided by the Ifop polling institute, the economic daily predicts that « populism will win the first round “. Because ” the total of voting intentions for Marine Le Pen, Éric Zemmour, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan reaches 52% “, calculated the economic daily, not taking into account the “ other small candidates “which also represent protest votes” against the system “. Taking this into account, this total would be 57.5% “, calculates in goldsmith the newspaper The echoes.

Today, in any case, the last day of the electoral campaign. Candidate of La République en Marche, but also outgoing President, Emmanuel Macron is on the front page of the daily newspaper The Parisian. The opportunity for him to castigate Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

Being reminded that the latter had criticized Emmanuel Macron on the grounds that the French president continued to dialogue with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, stating that “ no one negotiated with Hitler »…in an interview with readers of the newspaper The ParisianEmmanuel Macron calls the Polish Prime Minister ” far-right anti-Semitic, which bans LGBT (referring to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender).

Confraternal greetings, finally (if he can hear us), to Olivier Dubois, correspondent for Release, Point and Young Africakidnapped by a jihadist group exactly a year ago in Mali

…if he hears us, because, as we are reminded ReleaseRFI and France 24, were “ brutally » deprived of distribution in Mali. In FreedSonia Delesalle-Stolper, who runs the World service of this newspaper, reassures the only French hostage in the world on the growth of his children who ” will recognize “, that’s for sure, when will be announced “ the only news that matters. That of your liberation », Olivier Dubois.

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