After a record abstention rate in the first round of regional elections, the government wants to push the French to the polls for the second. “We are working on a campaign that will be launched from today or tomorrow, a flash campaign on social networks, particularly aimed at young people, to recall these elections,” Minister Delegate for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa announced on Wednesday. on CNews.
“I observe that many people did not know that there were elections (…) People who did not know what the regional council is for,” added Marlène Schiappa. According to final figures released Tuesday by the Interior Ministry, 66.72% of voters abstained from voting on Sunday in the first round of regional elections, a record for an election since the start of the Fifth Republic.