THE FIGARO EDITORIAL – The first round has not even taken place and the candidates are already contemplating the torments of defeat.
“Mirror, my beautiful mirror, I only want Le Pen, Mélenchon and me. » The Europeans erased the head of state from the reflection. By pronouncing the dissolution of the Assembly, he broke the mirror, but without removing the figures of Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
Until now, it was simpler: the ball was always in the center. The two-round elections ultimately only had one, since the one who found himself facing Marine Le Pen could, even before the second round, celebrate his victory (this is what Emmanuel Macron did in 2017). This martingale was valuable for elections but harmful to civic life. It has frozen politics into anathemas, discouraged collective deliberations, impressively impoverished public debate…
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