An atlas to map the political variety of abroad territories | EUROtoday

The reader is warned, “overseas remains an exogenous notion foreign to those who come from there”. But, the prerequisite established, the authors of this valuable little Atlas of Overseas (Otherwise, 96 pages, 24 euros) assume the time period, to uncover all its complexity and expose all its dimensions: worldwide, historic, political, socio-economic, environmental. In cost, two specialists, Fred Constant, professor of political science on the University of the Antilles, and Jean-Christophe Gay, professor of geography on the University of Côte d’Azur, introduced collectively quite a few contributions for an unique, very full end result, educationally offered by the cartographer Aurélie Boissière.

The electoral interval which is opening in France subsequently requires trying into the very atypical conduct of abroad voting. The 2 million abroad voters – among the many 49 million registered on the nationwide lists in 2024 – typically stand out from their compatriots in France, as Fred Constant remembers.

In addition to the predominance of native points, “the redefinition of relations with the State is the backdrop, according to a range of political demands ranging from autonomy with variable geometry to independence without nuances”. In 2024, the crises in Martinique (value of residing riots), Mayotte (insecurity, cyclone) and New Caledonia (independence rebellion) illustrated this, every in their very own method.

“The end of a political cycle”

Abstention, structurally increased for basic elections – presidential or European elections –, however decrease than in France for territorial elections, seems to be a uncommon widespread level between these territories. Just like the bulk vote, expressed within the Antilles and Guyana, for Marine Le Pen, within the second spherical of the 2022 presidential election.

The electoral scenes, nevertheless, stay very “autonomous”notice the authors of the atlas. In 2022, “in Martinique, the drastic drop in Emmanuel Macron’s score reflects less a spectacular adherence to the theses of M^me Le Pen that the sanction for the management of the chlordecone scandal and the Covid-19 pandemic, perceived as calamitous”.

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