In challenge to Macron, France's biggest voting bloc may be abstainers

An official poses while holding an empty ballot box in front of the city hall in Blecourt, France, March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France (Reuters) - Capucine Blond should vote on Sunday in her first presidential election but the disconnect the French teenager feels with the ruling elite is so great that she has decided there is no point.

Blond, 18, who earns 500 euros per month working on a short-term contract at her town hall, said she doubted any of the candidates would improve her job prospects to the point where she could afford to move out of her mother's house.