LEGISLATIVE, 15 DAYS LATER. “On vacation and disconnected”, “we’ll see in September”: youth are taking a break from politics

Emeline: “I also cut for fear of being disappointed.” Midi Libre – SYLVIE CAMBON

the essential In Montpellier, in Les Sabines, travelers wait for Flixbus and other Blablacars for national or European destinations. The elections have upset them but the summer break is welcome. Atmosphere.

"There, I'm on vacation and disconnected, it feels good!", smiles Émeline, 31 years old.

In transit in Montpellier from Metz, she waits for her bus to Marseille, at Les Sabines, the essential crossroads where Blablacar and Flixbus follow one another, leaving for all of Europe. This bank employee is holding on for the moment: no more social networks and no more information on the political situation since July 8, after the overdose of the last six weeks.

“Don't spoil it for me, it'll make me want to go and see !", says this supporter of a left "socialist and ecologist", who naturally voted for the new Popular Front.

"I also cut because I'm afraid of being disappointed in the coming weeks, the country is divided, the politicians no longer prove anything", continues Emeline of Italian origins. She also has difficulty coping with the annoyances in her family where some have been tempted by the extreme right and she denounces the xenophobic speech that is being released.

"In Marrakech, they still see us as wallets but racist"

"It saddens me", says the one who returns from Morocco and shares this anecdote: "in Marrakech, they still see us as wallets but racist."

Jaz, a 28-year-old from Perpignan, half Catalan, half Nicaraguan, is getting ready to board the bus. On vacation too, and disconnected… In part. This politics buff calls himself "optimistic" on the union of the left so that it wins a government.

"They proved that they could come to an agreement after the dissolution" recalls this student in philosophy. "How far on the chessboard ? When we see Édouard Philippe having lunch with Marine Le Pen to find out if there is has dissensions between them… I cried the evening of the first round, it hurt my heart."

Jaz: “I cried after the first round.” Midi Libre – SYLVIE CAMBON

Tuned to France-Info, a little BFM, he castigates Hanouna – "in the trash !" – and puts pressure on his mother and grandmother when they start to rage against welfare fraud, a theme of the far-right: "it’is 2 billion€ , tax fraud 80 billion€".

He would see "the ecologists in power, we never had them", and Théo, 23 years old, who in front of the bus says goodbye to his fiancée leaving for Grenoble, also defends environmental issues.

"People say black one day, white another, it's complicated, frustrating"

"It’s the climatic level that I have the most anxiety" indicates this executive in the building, in a hurry, he , to finally be on vacation at the beginning of August. "I’have disconnected a little from politics he says, almost embarrassed . But people say black one day, white another, it's complicated, frustrating", deplores the one who draws good ideas from the RN & ;ndash; "helping farmers" – but uncompromisingly rejects xenophobia.

Margaux, a young caregiver from Montpellier, is rushing for her trip to Corsica. She voted in the legislative elections, but there, the parliamentary issues leave her indifferent: "I'm not interested, we'll see that in September"< /em>  evades the young woman. She voted for Republican Front in June, but, tired of insecurity, RN tomorrow ?