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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Why did you have to vote? 
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Errr... because it's our civic duty?
And also to elect our regional councils. Which isn't very exciting for many people. Mayors are closer, and députés make laws, and the president... well he has to have some use I'm sure. And European elections get a lot of media coverage because they're always an occasion to vote for/against the Union, and we French always have that secret notion that we should be the ones running it. But regional elections... that's too far away for the local level, and not exciting enough for the national.
I hope the turnout was better than last week! Zelda voted, so that's one more