“There is no divide, these are tactical differences more than substantive”, reacts the deputy Eric Coquerel

“There is no divide, these are more tactical differences than substantive differences”declared on franceinfo Eric Coquerel, deputy La France Insoumise of Seine-Saint-Denis, after the results of the consultation launched by the movement for the vote in the second round of the presidential election on April 24.

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Of the 215,292 people who took part in this consultation, 37.65% indicated that they would vote blank or null, 33.40% chose to vote Emmanuel Macron and 28.96% preferred abstention. “There is a massive refusal from the far right among our voters who consider that this is never the solution”said Eric Coquerel, who recalls that these results are not a voting instruction but a “indication”.

To say him “not a voice for Marine Le Pen” is a way “active” to block. “Then charge Emmanuel Macron to prove that his bulletin is the most effective”advanced the deputy of Seine-Saint-Denis. “The difference is that there have been five years of Macron in the meantime and he has not been a dam to the far right, quite the contrary”he insisted, adding that he understood the voters who could not slip the ballot of the president-candidate into the ballot box.

Like the rest of the Insoumis deputies, Eric Coquerel reaffirmed that he would not say publicly who he would vote for in this second round. “Like Jean-Luc Mélenchon, we do not want to make voters feel guilty”he justified himself, insisting that “every voter” had the “willingness to block the far right”.