The recognition of the white vote, a recurring debate during elections. What is it used for? How does it differ from abstention? What do the candidates propose to consider?
Report: example of a PS municipality refusing to vote Jacques Chirac in the second round of the presidential elections. Comment on images illustrating the village of Pauillac, punctuated by the interview of Sébastien HOURNAU, mayor of Pauillac and reactions of inhabitants.
Report explaining with the help of infographics what the white vote and the null vote are. Since the 2014 law, the white ballot is no longer counted with the null ballot, but taken into account for the number of votes cast. The commentary alternates with micro-sidewalks of voters who hesitate between the white vote and abstention.
Report in Millas in the Pyrénées Orientales: Marine le Pen won the second round of the presidential elections with 53% of the vote. Yet the National Front demands the invalidation of the vote for violation of the electoral code. In the 4 polling stations of the small commune, white ballots had been deposited next to the ballots of the two candidates. It is the constitutional council that must decide on the offence. Commentary on illustrations, punctuated by the interviews of Xavier BAUDRY, departmental representative of Marine le Pen, who denounces this irregularity and Damienne BEFFARRA, mayor PS of Millas, for whom this incident revives the debate on the taking into account of the white vote.
Subject devoted to the record of white voting and abstention in the second round of presidential elections in 2017. Two Marseilles voters, who refuse to choose a candidate that does not suit them, explain. The first one says that he gave up doing as in the second round of the 2002 presidential elections, voting against his convictions to block the extreme right. The journalist announces at the end of the subject the figures of the blank votes and the abstention for the second round.
Subject devoted to the increase of the white vote in the second round of the presidential elections between 1988 and 2002, followed by the interview of Didier MAUS, professor of constitutional law. He mentions the reasons for the blank vote and explains that the 1962 reform ensures that the president is elected by an absolute majority of the votes cast.
Political personalities are interviewed about the white vote: - Hervé MORIN, Member of the National Assembly, President of the UDF Group in the National Assembly, considers the white vote as a democratic vote to combat abstention. - Laurent FABIUS, PS Member of Parliament, supports compulsory participation in the elections with the possibility of voting blank. - Dominique Chagnollaud, professor at the University of Paris II, explains that to count blank votes, the constitution would have to be amended.
Report on the white vote during the second round of the presidential elections. The commentary details, using infographics, the percentages of voters' blank and void votes by political family. Jérôme SCHMITT, France Insoumise’s candidate for the legislative elections in the Loiret and Olivier GEFFROY, deputy mayor LR of Orléans in charge of security, discuss the reasons for Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to vote in the second round of the presidential elections.
Subject devoted to the white vote during the inter-round of the 2002 presidential elections. Comment on images followed by an interview with Pierre MAZATAUD, a political scientist who details the motivations of the white vote and expresses his wish that they be counted in the election.
Subject detailing a poll on the white vote in comments, followed by a micro-sidewalk among French who hesitate between the white vote and the abstention for the next elections.
The subject evokes the non-recognition of the white vote, which only the 2014 law amended. Pauline TURK, a political scientist and professor of public law at the Faculty of Nice, explains that if the blank vote was counted, the elected candidate would have less legitimacy.