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“Liberation” recalled voters of the rebellious who said a week ago to consider an RN ballot in the second round. The past anger and the possibility of a “third round” well anchored in the heads, all have now abandoned the idea.
“I thought about it, I’m going to do like Florent Pagny, I’m going to leave the country.” The tone is almost serious. But Romain laughs at us. “No, I’m just going to Belgium for three days, I pay my taxes anyway! I am not making a power of attorney, I will abstain. Release had contacted this 35-year-old English teacher a week ago because he presented himself as a voter of Jean-Luc Mélenchon tempted by the Marine Le Pen vote in the second round. “I am clearly ashamed”, he told us then. This possibility is no longer relevant, he assures us today. “Of course not, I wouldn’t be able to put a Le Pen ballot in the ballot box, it’s still Marine Le Pen…”
Like Romain, all the voters we called back changed their minds. None will vote for the National Rally (RN). Yet, a week ago, they said to each other “willing to do anything” facing “contempt for Macron”. Camille, a 41-year-old school teacher, wondered if her hatred for the president-candidate deserved “to go as far as a Le Pen vote”. David, who works in a private Jewish school in the Paris region, was hoping for a “shock in the street” and one “democratic blockage…