Presidential: the white vote dominates among the mélenchonistes in the second round

Published on: 04/17/2022 – 11:24 The blank or null vote came first, with 37.65% of the 215,292 votes cast, during the consultation carried out by Jean-Luc Mélenchon with his supporters in view of the second round of the presidential election, its official website announced on Sunday. The Macron vote comes next with 33.4% of the vote, ahead of abstention with nearly 29%. The Le Pen vote was not proposed, by virtue of the instructions given by the LFI candidate on the evening of the first round: “You must not give a vote to Mrs. Le Pen”. The announcement of the results, Sunday April 17, on the melenchon2022.fr site is preceded by the following clarification: “The result of this consultation is not an instruction given to anyone. It indicates the assessments of the 215,292 people who participated. Each will conclude and will vote in conscience, as he sees fit.” The consultation of the 310,000 online sponsors of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s candidacy ended on Saturday at 8 p.m. It was preceded by a word from the ex-candidate, who won nearly 22% of the vote on April 10: the second round “will be resolved in defiance of our most fundamental repulsions. A presidency without moral authority will come out of it”, entrusts the tribune. But, he adds, the two finalists “are not equivalent. Marine Le Pen adds to the project of social mistreatment that she shares with Emmanuel Macron a dangerous ferment of ethnic and religious exclusion”. This is why I said and I repeat that not a vote should go to the far-right candidate”, writes Jean-Luc Mélenchon. The candidate explains why he proceeds in this way, while his voters are divided on the second round vote, according to some studies: “Let’s not give this duo the gain of opposing us over them when we are so strongly united on our projects. The cohesion of the Popular Union is our dearest asset “He had already consulted his supporters in 2017, when he had completed four th with 19.58% of the vote, with the same exception: “Not a vote for the extreme right”. The consultation had also resulted in a narrow majority for the blank or null vote (36%), just ahead of the vote for Emmanuel Macron (nearly 35%), a little less than a third remaining speaking for abstention.AFP