At 8pm, the Europavox festival-goers put the music aside for a moment. For a moment they left this three-day golden interlude.
Let’s not lie, at 8 p.m., many festival-goers were on their phones looking at the food truck menus this Sunday evening. The stomach has its reasons that politics does not know.
Yet, during the afternoon, discussions about the elections peppered the aisles. But this is not a presidential election, with an almost Hollywood-style reveal of the result. No. And this is a first round.
There is still this group. Young. Very young. To break the cliché. They had their eyes glued to a smartphone, in a group. And immediately, the cry arises. “Piss off.” Quite simply. And immediately, hope takes over.
We have until July 7. Now the fight begins.
Slowly, the shiver spreads. Everyone takes notice. Some are disillusioned. “What did you expect?” Others, like Stéphanie, refuse: “We can’t act as if this is normal.” Others dance, without music, in the pit. Historic left-wing voters, happy to see their party regain its strength. “Everything is still possible.”
We suspected that the audience of a festival did not resemble the pool of RN voters. Especially on a night when the headliner is Shaka Ponk. Moreover, Frah, the singer, had held a long anti-RN litany on Thursday at the Garorock festival.
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As these lines are being written, we are waiting for the group to go on stage. The first to appear before the audience is called Olivia Ruiz.
The singer whose maternal family is of Spanish origin begins her show with song. But from the third song: “This song says that we are part of the same family, whatever our culture, whatever our origins. A tribute to difference, sadly topical. It is addressed to you, to you, yours…” Mad crowd. End of song. Second layer: “We’re counting on you to go vote on Sunday. We’re really, really, really counting on you.”
Simon Antony
