Electoral mystery, depending on whether one refers to the posting of the results of the first round of the presidential election at the town hall or to the website of the Ministry of the Interior, on 1is arrondissement of Paris would be Macronist or Mélenchonist. On closer inspection, the result of April 10 posted in the town hall announces 43.04% of the votes for the outgoing president, out of a total of 8,632 votes cast and a participation rate of 79%. Place Beauvau, on the other hand, gives the leader of La France insoumise in the lead with 34.54%, an identical turnout, but 18,866 votes cast.
This discrepancy comes from the postal vote of detainees, whose ballots were counted in a fictitious polling station at the Ministry of Justice, Place Vendôme, and counted with the voters of this district which goes from Place de la Concorde to at the Halls. The success of this mode of participation in the elections, inaugurated for the European elections of 2019 and for the first time this year for a presidential election, came to blur the results of this well-to-do district where Mr. Mélenchon came second (21.22%) and Eric Zemmour third (9.28%).
The 10,234 detainees who voted by post placed the same trifecta as the French as a whole, but in a different order. Jean-Luc Mélenchon is close to 50% with 45.78% of the vote, ahead of Marine Le Pen (20.28%) and Emmanuel Macron (18.63%). The following do less well than at the national level, with Eric Zemmour at 3.82% and Valérie Pécresse at 2.61%.
13,672 detainees took the step
Emmanuel Macron announced, in 2018, wanting to facilitate access to the vote for people detained, sentenced or in pre-trial detention, seeing it as an element of their dignity to be respected. Deprived of freedom but not of their citizenship, these people have a vocation to reintegrate into society, he pleaded. The Ministries of Justice and of the Interior have therefore devised a third means of voting for them, alongside voting by proxy and the permission to leave requested from the judge to fulfill his duty as a citizen.
During the European elections, 5,184 prisoners had registered to vote by post and 4,413 had done so. This year, they are 13,672 to have taken the step to register in their respective prisons and, finally, 75% of them slipped a ballot for April 10. A little more even, since 457 votes arrived Place Vendôme were considered null. This hiccup, revealed by the International Observatory of Prisons (OIP), occurred in particular because some of these envelopes did not contain the necessary elements (the photocopy of only one side of the identity card instead of the two ) when other envelopes were unsealed or partially torn. At the Ministry of Justice, it is ensured that instructions have been passed in penitentiary establishments in order to limit these risks of nullity for the second round of the ballot.
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