It is now said to be the “first party in France”… abstention. In the last days of the campaign, all the candidates tried to curb the weak mobilization they sensed, but with what result? At noon during this first round, the participation amounted to 18.43%, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
This is slightly worse than five years ago, when the turnout four hours after the opening of the polls was 19.24%.
Since the campaign began, and despite the very strong personalization of the debates around Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who is claiming the post of Prime Minister if the Nupes obtains a majority in the Assembly, barely one in two French people of voting age said, in the polls, his interest in this election, fifty days after the second round of the presidential election.
The queen election itself suffered from a disappointing turnout: 25.5% at noon in the first round, 26.4% in the second, 73.7% and 72% in total, at a very low level, never recorded. since 1969.
For several years, the overall participation in legislative elections has continued to decline, falling from 64.42% in 2002 to 60.44% in 2007, 57.22% in 2012 and 48.7% in 2017.