In France, nearly 50 million people are called to the polls for this vote which should make it possible to renew the European Parliament.
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The decline in abstention in the European elections is confirmed, vote after vote. According to an Ipsos estimate for France Télévisions, Radio France, France 24, RFI, Public Senate and LCP National Assembly, abstention should rise, on Sunday June 9, to 48%, or 1.9 point less than in 2019 and 9.6 points less than in 2014. More than half of the 49.5 million voters went to the polls this year, while many parties had hammered out the date of June 9 to try to convince the French to vote .
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The increase in participation was already observed with the figures communicated by the Ministry of the Interior at noon (19.81% this year against 19.26% in 2019) and 5 p.m. (45.26% this year against 43, 29% in 2019). After 2019, this is the second time that the ballot has taken place within the framework of a single national constituency in the 21st century (and no longer in interregional constituencies), which may have contributed to making the ballot more readable in the eyes of voters. voters.
