The mobilization of voters in the legislative elections also seems to concern the French abroad. They are sending eleven deputies to the National Assembly. The French abroad can vote on site, by proxy but also online. In this case, they had to vote, for the first round, between June 25 and 27. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated, on Thursday evening, June 27, that “more than 410,000 online voters” had been counted. “A record participation! In comparison, there were 250,000 of you in 2022”the ministry welcomes. According to a trade unionist from the Quai d’Orsay, the lower number of polling stations abroad, due to the very short organisation times, can also explain this online mobilisation.
For example, in the consular district of Berlin, which has 21,200 registered voters, 8,439 voters (39.8%) voted online, 250 more than the total number of voters who voted in the second round of the legislative elections in June 2022, all types of voting combined (at the ballot box, by mail or online).
On the scale of the 7e constituency for French people living abroad (Germany, Central Europe, Balkans), which has 123,000 registered voters, around 33% of voters voted via the Internet. Compared to the 2022 legislative elections, the number of voters having voted via the Internet is clearly increasing everywhere, such as in Munich (+ 50%) and Berlin (+ 40%), which alone concentrate almost a third of voters in the constituency.
“Real fear of the RN”
In the United States, too, the mobilization is strong. In New York, the consulate had recorded, on Thursday, June 27, 1,300 local proxies, twice as many as before the European elections. And the participation rate in the Internet vote reached 35.9% across the entire North American constituency. This figure already shatters the 21.3% participation in the first round of the 2022 legislative elections and the 15.1% of the European elections.
Voters are delighted with the ease of voting, such as Marguerite Talbourdet, a young French woman employed in an art company and married to an American, who voted online. “Among the French abroad, there is a real fear of the RN [Rassemblement national] »explains Mme Talbourdet, candidate for American nationality, citing the restrictions that the RN intends to impose for certain jobs. The task promises to be delicate for Roland Lescure, Macronist candidate.
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To counter the left, the latter denounces the universal tax that Jean-Luc Mélenchon wants to establish. “The French people of North America will be happy to learn that with the NFP [Nouveau Front populaire], they will be taxed twice. At home in Canada or the United States, and through the France of Jean-Luc Mélenchon”Mr. Lescure tweeted. Taxation is a major topic of discussion between the two sides of the Atlantic.
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