In Toulouse, activists in the campaign “against the electoral masquerade” – Liberation
2022, journey to the center of abstention
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During the presidential campaign, “Liberation” interviewed French people who chose not to vote or no longer vote. Will they reuse their voter card in April? In Empalot, a Toulouse district marked by abstention, posters intimating the boycott of the ballot.
Revolution through abstention? Mostafa was ultimately not refereed between Hidalgo, Taubira or the others. During our first meeting, in January, at the market in the Empalot district of Toulouse, the disenchanted and nostalgic sexagenarian of Martine Aubry’s Socialist Party declared himself interested in the Popular Primary to try to “wake” a moribund left. He ultimately did not register to participate online. “Nobody came to ask me” remarks Mostafa. Between the old bars of buildings being demolished and the new constructions that are growing in this former HLM district on the banks of the Garonne, the presidential campaign remains sluggish. The supporters of Eric Zemmour came to stick posters on the panel reserved for this purpose at the beginning of the year, quickly covered by those of Fabien Roussel in this former worker stronghold of the Communist Party. From now on, the panel erected in front of the old social center, at the end of rue Jean-Moulin, promotes a concert of oriental music and a show in memory of Johnny Halliday at the Zénith de Toulouse.
The only political posters are intended to be wild, stuck everywhere at the exit of the metro or the walls of the new shopping center. “Against the electoral masquerade”…