Turnout still low at midday in French regional elections


  • World
  • Sunday, 27 Jun 2021

A man enters a polling station during the second round of French regional and departmental elections, in Velizy-Villacoublay, France June 27, 2021. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier

(Corrects date of last election to 2015)

PARIS (Reuters) - Turnout by midday in the second round of French regional elections was 12.66%, only slightly up on last week's record low of 12.22%, the interior ministry said on Sunday.

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