In Lille: “It’s the first time that I’m really scared”
In the working-class district of Lille-Fives, slowly won over by gentrification, the district town hall welcomed 30 registrants on this morning of the first round, or 3.03% of voters between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. An automatic door avoids touching the handle, a hydroalcoholic gel dispenser is placed at the entrance and the entire team responsible for welcoming voters has chosen to wear the mask.
Already five Fivois have agreed to come and strip this evening. “There are also quite a few who tell us that they are afraid to strip because of the expected results”explains the president of the polling station, Camille Stievenard.
Boris Dupont, 27, is one of them. “I think we are going to have a Macron-Le Pen second round. The far right barks more than it bites but you never know…” The young man works in the catering industry, he believes that ” crisis [du Covid-19] was very well managed, but ecology was dropped on all programs. And then, I am more interested in the programs than in the candidates ».
At 25, Gaia Mendzylewski ” runs away “ find her lover in Brussels. “It’s the first time I’ve been really scaredsays this Lille woman who works in cartoons. Tonight, I’m not going to be well. I had voted Macron in the second round in 2017 but there, both terrify me: the far right and the dangerousness of Macron’s policy. » Before heading to Belgium, Gaïa voted, her stomach knotted, without knowing what she will do in the second round in the event of Macron-Le Pen.
Mickaël Baisez, 35, will not have been able to put his envelope in the ballot box of office 208. He has not made his change of address. “I have to go to Roubaix where I lived for ten yearssays the smicard, father of three children. It’s going to cost me gas but it might be for a good thing”.
Angry, and bored ” taxes “he will vote Marine Le Pen for the first time, “because she’s not like her father and she has people behind her”. Mickaël works in a solidarity grocery store. He inquires “many via Facebook and TikTok”, n / A “not tempted by Zemmour”, is not “not racist”, and wants to “change president”.
It is 10 a.m. at office 208 in Lille-Fives. 66 voters, or 6.66%, have moved since the opening of the office.