TRIBUNE – Between a Renaissance MP claiming that the Cross of Lorraine is a religious symbol and the left’s disdain for the legacy of the Popular Front, the legislative campaign was an opportunity to note the historical ignorance of our political personnel, deplores the essayist*.
*Maxime Tandonnet is an essayist and historian. He notably published “ André Tardieu. The misunderstood » (Perrin, 2019), recently reissued in paperback (coll. « Tempus »).
The ghosts of history haunt the stage of the great political spectacle like never before on the eve of the 2024 legislative elections. Everything happens as if, unable to conceive a coherent and realistic project for the future, the actors of the political comedy turned to the past trying to recover it for propaganda or personal image purposes.
Thus, the socialist, Insoumise and Ecologist left thought it was a good idea to abandon the acronym Nupes and present themselves under the name of the New Popular Front. However, nothing is further from the spirit of the Popular Front of 1936 than that of the radicalized left today. With its faults, the alliance of the SFIO and the radical socialists – initially supported by the Communist Party, which did not participate in the government – benefited in 1936 from the enthusiastic support of the class…
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