#RadioLondres: municipal elections 2020, follow the results of the 1st round live. Because we vote in France this Sunday, March 15, despite the coronavirus. Follow our “live” at the bottom of the article.
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France is voting this Sunday for the first round of the 2020 municipal elections. Unlike the French media, we don’t have to wait 20 hours to broadcast the first results and polls after the polls. You will therefore be able to follow this election day from this afternoon in our direct at the end of the article, when the first information reaches us..
The French are due to vote on Sunday to elect their 35,000 mayors after a campaign overshadowed by the increasingly dramatic coronavirus crisis.
Some observers fear that the ballot suffers from record abstention. However, in the polling stations, preparations are being made to welcome voters in the best possible conditions. Will this be enough to encourage the nearly 47.7 million voters to vote?
Participation in the first round was in any case 18.38%, Sunday at midday, almost five points less than in 2014 (23.17%), according to figures from the Interior Ministry.
The highest participation was observed in Haute-Corse (34.51%), while Paris (12.61%) and the crown of the capital are the departments that mobilized the least. At the stroke of 5 p.m., we could speak of a collapse since the participation rate was only 38.77%. This is 16 points lower than in 2014.
This unprecedented context, after an electoral campaign ended in indifference, obscures the political stakes of this election: Will the Republicans and the PS manage to rebuild themselves on the municipal level, after having seen their national positions collapse since 2017? Will the RN confirm its breakthrough by winning new town halls in the South and Hauts de France? Can EELV environmentalists maintain their momentum for European women? Will LREM, in a difficult position, succeed in starting local implantation?
>>> Follow our live at the end of the article.
France is voting this Sunday for the first round of the 2020 municipal elections. Unlike the French media, we don’t have to wait 20 hours to broadcast the first results and polls after the polls. You will therefore be able to follow this election day from this afternoon in our direct at the end of the article, when the first information reaches us..
The French are due to vote on Sunday to elect their 35,000 mayors after a campaign overshadowed by the increasingly dramatic coronavirus crisis.