In the last election, 11.67% of voters did not come to vote. Feeling of not being legitimate or desire to protest, abstention reflects multiple motivations. Report from the streets of Liège.
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Head of the Ideas department
By Marine BuissonPublished on 6/06/2024 at 6:51 p.m.
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VSIt’s not that I’m not interested. It’s because no one interests me. » For a good ten minutes, Sonia, just an adult, has been being lectured by her mother. “I got fooled, I thought we were just going to have a bite to eat, but it turned into a shouting match,” laughs the young girl before biting into her sandwich. His mother, Carole, glares at him. This is because the two Liégeoises do not quite share, and that is an understatement, the same plan for next June 9. Sonia, who is going to vote for the first time, has decided not to come: “I would have done better not to say it. Ever since I talked about it, I’ve been getting yelled at by everyone. But I have a real reason! I don’t like anyone, I find them all bad, cynical and opportunistic. And voting blank means abstaining, everything is counted the same. So, I abstain. To abstain is to choose not to choose, right? » His mother is furious: “You won’t come and complain if laws are passed and you don’t like them.
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