With a big abstention, it seems that the polls for their first round will close presidential elections in France.
At 5 p.m. (6 pm Greek time), three hours before the end of the voting, the participation of the citizens in the electoral process was at 65%, lower by 4.4 percentage points compared to the elections of 2017, when the turnout at the same time was formed at 69.42%.
According to estimates published by the French media, between 24% and 26% are predicted to be the abstention in the current presidential elections.
Emanuel Macron earlier called on his fellow citizens to vote in a Twitter message, but all indications are that we are going for a 20-year record in terms of abstaining from elections.
In the first round of the 2012 elections, at the same time, the turnout was 70.59%, while in 2007 it was 73.63%. Only in 2002 was there a greater abstention, at the same time, as that year, with the main candidates Jacques Chirac and Jean-Marie Le Pen, the turnout was 58.45%, which is six points lower than now.
Source: News Beast
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