According to an Odoxa survey for Le Figaro, “ nearly 30% of voters could shun the ballot boxes in April, a historic record “, points” the One “of this daily. ” Two-thirds of French people (65%) expect a high rate of abstention, highlighted Le Figaro in the light of this survey, and only 69.5% of those registered on the electoral lists say they are today “some” to vote – that is fifteen points less than five years ago “. This newspaper also notes that ” nearly 3 out of 10 citizens plan to abstain, and 1 out of 4 do not totally rule out doing so… letting the institute predict a turnout of only 70.5%, setting this election in a new abstention record “.
Less than three months before the first round of this French presidential election,Le Figaro to also note that it is the voters of ecological and socialist sensitivity who are “ the most undecided “. As for the reasons given by the French considering abstaining during this election, the main one, put forward by nearly 4 out of 10 potential abstainers, is their lack of recognition ” in the ideas, the proposals of the candidates “.
Hunger strikers’ appetite for Taubira
The candidates, precisely. There should be one more this Saturday, with the expected candidacy of Christiane Taubira. ” Today, one more woman enters the presidential dance, signals The Parisian. From Lyon (central-eastern France), Christiane Taubira must announce her candidacy at the end of the morning “.
Will this announcement provoke an electric shock on the left, as hoped in particular by the dozen activists who had started a hunger strike in order to call on the left to unite behind a single candidacy? Anyway, after a week of fasting, these hunger strikers arrested him. ” Without much result, since no candidate has changed position », sighs Release.
However, point out Liberated, activists engaged in the hunger strike ” don’t give up “. They still believe that the left can win in 2022 “. According to them, “ the rally will still be possible in February, after the vote on January 30 of the popular Primary. ” Before that, the organizers of the said primary must unveil today the final list of ten candidates. More than 120,000 people have registered to participate », complete Release.
What do voters dream about?
Great favorite of this “primary of the left”, Christiane Taubira will she be able to succeed in unifying the left? In any case, the female electorate may well not be sensitive to this question. A true icon of the left, will the former Keeper of the Seals of Socialist President François Hollande be able to rally the rest of the left to his poetic panache? In the meantime, on the electorate side, The Parisian already notice that if this presidential ” could be particularly feminine since at least five candidates are announced, the voters do not make it an argument for voting “. Anything but anecdotal, because French female voters outnumber male voters. But, here again, the candidates do not (necessarily) make women dream “, highlighted The Parisian.
Moliere the immortal
Exactly four hundred years ago, on January 15, 1622, one of the greatest French playwrights and actors, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière, was born. Superb tribute by Jean-Paul Brighelli in the opinion journal talker. As this former associate professor of letters reminds us, “ two traditions forever link the Comédie Française to Molière. It strikes six shots, not three, in memory of the merger (in 1680) of Molière’s troupe, known as the Hôtel Guénégaud, and that of the Hôtel de Bourgogne (…). And when we play Le Malade imaginaire, (his) final piece (…), in the final ceremony, (…) where the “sick” is inducted as a doctor by giving a sermon (which consists of repeating the word “Juro”, that is to say “I swear”, in Latin, at the third “Juro”, the lights go out, silence falls: it is on this reply that Molière began to choke on his blood, and was very quickly transported to his home where he died during the night. We thus pass in an instant from the most frank laughter to total emotion. “says Jean-Paul Brighelli in Talker.