Who can you trust to entrust your voting rights by proxy?

More than a million proxies have already been registered nationwide for the legislative vote on June 30 and July 7.

A few days before the first round of the legislative elections, police stations and gendarmes are seeing voters seeking proxies parade. Since June 10, the Ministry of the Interior counted 1,377,105 proxies. But a question arises when it comes time to cast your vote: who can you trust?

It’s a parade at the Tassin la Demi-Lune gendarmerie: no less than 500 proxies recorded over the weekend with voters from all over western Lyon. “I won’t be there for the second round so I had to make a proxy”explains Laurence who entrusted her vote to her son “who should respect what their mother says”she laughed.

The family remains the number one solution for proxies, as demonstrated by Hugo and Laurine, who come from Isère and Haute-Savoie.

“I asked my parents to vote for me. Dad, mom, it’s the safe bet”

“Even if they don’t agree, they will still accept”, adds Hugo. But parents still have their say. Brigitte is going to vote for one of her sons but only because he shares her ideas. A sine qua non condition, explains this mother. “I prefer to say it, otherwise I would not have taken the proxy. Things are going quite badly, you have to vote according to your ideas.” Chaim feels that even power of attorney can become a delicate subject at the moment.

“You really need to find someone you trust right now. I asked my little brother to do it. He delayed his vacation for a day, he said ‘I’ll take the proxies’.”

Chaïma says she has complete confidence in her brother. “We know we have the same ideas”, she says. For Chaim in any case, abstaining is not an option: “We know it’s decisive, I think everyone feels concerned now.”