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In Nice, Marseille, or Saint-Brieuc, left-wing voters, disappointed with the outcome of the presidential election, keep a “thin hope” for the legislative elections.
When, on Sunday evening, Chloé saw Emmanuel Macron’s face on the television screen, she felt a “ambivalence” climb into it. “First the relief because we avoid the worst, but we know very well that the policy will be neither social nor oriented towards public services.” At 35, this employee of the Nice National Education voted Mélenchon in the first round, Macron in the second. “With the presidential election, we elect the king. And the legislative elections, it’s the little Xanax that arrives at the last moment, she says. It’s nice to want the unit left now, but they’re a few months late. It had to be done before. Now I’m intrigued to see if the ego and turf war issues won’t break everything. Because they want, Mélenchon the first, to be headliner. Hope is slim but I try to trust. Chloé is on the left, in a city on the right. In Nice, his political discussions remain “in a private setting”. Here, no leftist deputy. Without illusion, the young woman counts “on other regions” to generate opposition.
This is how, since 2012 and the election of François Hollande, Benjamin has not “never again voted twice in a row out of conviction”. At the first on the left, at the second roadblock. “As a leftist voter in the Alpes-Maritimes, I have no hope. We have to vote only once, and it’s tiring, he develops. This time, …