Louison had a good Sunday, June 12: he parachuted. Compared to the legislative elections, “there are better feelings”, jokes this resident of Bourg-en-Bresse, soon to be 21, who is studying business engineering in Lyon. The ballot does not interest him much. “We do not vote for one party to pass, but for another not to pass”, he laments, all the more bitter that the environmental cause does not appear at the top of the priorities. Sunday, June 19, however, he thinks of going to the polling station for the second round: “I’ll be with my parents for Father’s Day, then!” »
Like him, many young citizens met by The world distanced themselves from the ballot. Amaïa (several interlocutors did not wish to give their surname) did not vote in the first round, because “good motivation”. This 18-year-old Burgian, in optical BTS, finds that young people are poorly represented. “We vote a little reluctantly. And blocking, it bothers me “, details the young woman, who also regrets that the theme of ecology is not “not featured at all”.
Some question the shortcomings of civic education. Widjina, 22, a Parisian student in international solidarity management, finds “superficial” the courses she received: “We are not told why and how, to what extent voting is a duty. » She went to the polls; if many do not, in his opinion, “It’s because they tell themselves that the others are going to go there, or don’t feel legitimate, or know that they have privileges and that the elections are not going to change that”.
“The president, it is for him that he is elected”
In Ain, Mathis Mercier, 18, employed in collective catering, declares knowing ” more or less “ how the National Assembly works, what is the purpose of a deputy. As he still lives with his parents, the decisions taken do not concern him, he judges. Hassan, 32, manager of a Parisian restaurant, has “completely screwed up” the first round, but intends to catch up in the second, and vote rather on the right. In any case, in his eyes, the political landscape is hardly contrasted: “Some officials, you can see them on both sides. In fact, you only have one side left! It’s super hard to choose. »
“Elections are still a business, in the sense that if you’re not in it, you’re lost, says Damien, a landscaping student in Bourg-en-Bresse. At 18, you are told to vote, and you don’t know why. » If it weren’t for the discussions with his parents, his comrade Sathine, 18, thinks he probably wouldn’t vote. “My parents voted, then they voted blank, then they stopped. Politics, we never talk about it at home, says Jossua Martin, 19, a preparatory math student in Bourg-en-Bresse. Even the presidential election did not arouse his curiosity: “The president, it is for him that he is elected, not for France. »
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