44% abstention: French native elections ‘poorly attended gown rehearsal’ for 2027 presidential race | EUROtoday

Following France’s lowest voter turnout because the COVID pandemic, Eve Irvine is happy to welcome Dr. Andrew Smith, Historian of Modern France and Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. According to Dr. Smith, the defining characteristic of those municipal elections isn’t the efficiency of any single political pressure. The degree of abstention marked the elections greater than some other storyline: With roughly 44% of voters staying away, turnout has dropped dramatically in contrast with earlier many years when participation typically exceeded sixty % and even approached eighty % within the Nineteen Eighties.