This week, we're exploring a key question ahead of the upcoming presidential elections in France: "to vote or not to vote?" As the list of candidates gets longer, the race is on to drum up support. But voter apathy is still a major concern and increasing numbers of would-be voters are turning their backs on politicians and the political system. Our reporters went to one Paris suburb with a particularly high abstention rate to meet some who are adamant they're going nowhere near a polling station this spring.
For more on the issue of abstention in France, we speak to analyst Céline Braconnier. She's the director of Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye University and the author of "The democracy of abstention."
