The importance of voting...

After almost 3 crazy weeks I'm back in my job and in this blog...

All the work our "team" has produced in the past weeks has paid : we've made a better result than in 2001 with 10,30% of the votes (we're still the third political force in Bordeaux) and we've kept the same number of representants.
Unfortunately it has not been a victory for democracy as Alain Juppé has recovered his seat of mayor after having provoked unjustified elections (which cost 600.000 euros, paid by the French people) and being condemned for corruption (he only had one year of ineligibility!).
His party considers this election as a victory... but with only 45% of people who have actually voted, has he really any reason to be proud of???

I must say I'm more and more convinced that we should implement in France a law that makes voting compulsory, just like in Belgium... Because where is the legitimacy of politicians who have been elected by only half of the votants???