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Abstention, results ... Relive the first round of regional elections

The abstention alert. While abstention reached, according to estimates by polling institutes, a record level between 66.5% and 68.6%, this "abyssal" level would be “partly linked to the health situation”, according to government spokesperson Gabriel Attal, adding that it “must alert us all”. Abstention is "the first lesson of these elections", he analyzed.

As for the MEP EE-LV Yannick Jadot expressed concern about a "form of schism which is taking hold between the political class and the French women and men".

Abstention, results… Relive the first round regional elections

For Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, “the level of abstention is particularly worrying,” he said in a message on Twitter. "Our collective work must be geared towards mobilizing the French for the second round," he added.

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