presidential candidateThat's the promise of the French app Elyze, which was created by students Grégoire Cazcarra, 22, and François Mari, 19, who will participate in their first presidential election
presidential candidateThat's the promise of the French app Elyze, which was created by students Grégoire Cazcarra, 22, and François Mari, 19, who will participate in their first presidential election in less than three months.
With the first round of the French presidential elections around the corner, Elyze's founders want to convince young French people to vote on April 10. Elyze was invented to convince citizens, particularly young ones,"whatever their political sensitivity, their personal background, that their voice is worth hearing," Cazcarra added.Abstention, especially among young voters, regardless of the type of election, has been a major issue in France for many years now, with notably 82% of young people ages 18 to 35 having abstained from voting during the regional elections last year.
Cazcarra, who founded the non-partisan movement"Les Engagés" in 2017 to"give young people a taste for politics," and co-created the NGO A Voté for"the defense of civil rights and democratic progress," is convinced that, even though many French politicians are on social media, education is to blame for young people's lack of interest and involvement in politics today.
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