Only a few days left to convince before the second round of the presidential election on Sunday. In Ile-de-France, as everywhere in France, the supporters of Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron are throwing their last forces into battle by towing and door-to-door, the objective being to convince the undecided, the abstainers and those who, many, chose Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the first round. The leader of the radical left won the votes in the region on 10th April last.
The RN meets the hostility of the voters of the XIIth
A small group of RN activists met this Tuesday morning at the Daumesnil market, in the 12th arrondissement of the capital. Their candidate obtained only 6% of the votes in the first round. Not easy, therefore, to campaign here for the extreme right. A man calls activists fascistsa woman refuses the leaflet handed to her: “No way am I getting my hands dirty!“It also happens that the conversation begins, as with this passerby who evokes the cities held by the RN:”The opposition is muzzled there, some associations lose their subsidies for no valid reason. Voting Le Pen would be a big mistake“.
– Sarah Tuchscherer
A long-time activist, of the FN then of the RN, Christian remains stoic in the face of these reactions. As if trying to convince himself of this, he assures us: “I feel a more favorable climate. There are more people taking our leaflets. They want change, they tell themselves that they have never tried Marine and are ready to do so. Besides, she has a very good social program“. Françoise, who is in her second campaign tow, says she is convinced of the success of her candidate with the working classes. “Among the bobos, there are a lot of ready-made judgments“, she concludes.
Macronists put ministers to work
On the side of the Republic on the march, the ministers were called in for reinforcement. That of transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, was in Neuilly-sur-Marne, this Tuesday evening, to listen to the grievances of the inhabitants in the company of the deputy of the district, Patrice Anato and Djénéba Diaby, deputy mayor of the city. In the district of Fauvettes, they greet the few inhabitants present outside and are questioned about parking, fuel prices, the arrival of the metro. The minister promises to relaunch the file for the extension of line 11. “I don’t know if it’s effective to run a campaign like that, but in any case it allows me to better understand the problems and therefore to act more effectively.assures Jean-Baptiste Djebbari. People are adults, they vote as they want, that’s not what interests me coming here“.
– Sarah Tuchscherer
Elected by the city, Djénéba Diaby concedes: “We are in a complicated situation, the five-year term has not been easy, people are in rejection. But you can’t change everything in five years. We pay for decades where heads of state have succeeded each other without taking the responsibilities necessary to respond to the problems of societyAn activist in the field, Anita is not really confident about Sunday evening’s result. abstention: “I really invite them to block the extreme right. We shouldn’t wake up Monday morning with her in power“.