When asked, “What are you going to do?” he chose to reply: “I’ll tell you what I won’t do.”
By playing on syntax, the president of the Departmental Council tried to avoid directly answering the question about his stance for the second round of the presidential election: “At the dawn of a second round between two diametrically opposed visions for the future, the voices of the French, free and independent, belong to no one… Personally, faithful to my convictions and my political family, I align myself with the position of the Republicans’ Political Bureau expressed by Christian Jacob, and my vote will not go to the National Rally candidate, Marine Le Pen.”
Thus, we can be sure of one thing: Charles-Ange Ginésy will not vote for MLP.
At this point, he is left with three options: not voting (abstention), not choosing (blank vote), or voting for the incumbent president.
Charles-Ange Ginésy does not follow Eric Ciotti, who declared: “never Macron.” He chooses the half-choice, that of uncertainty.
This reminds us of a passage from the novel “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” where its author Herman Melville (the one of the famous novel “Moby Dick”) has the lamentably respectable character (Bartleby), an epitome of passive resistance, say: “I would prefer not to.”
