REPORTAGE – In Gap and its surroundings, the “first constituency” has always followed the national trend for legislative elections. The theorist of “popular and elite blocs” confronts himself for the first time on the ground.
Behind his fruit and vegetable display, Fabien*, 38, watches mockingly as Communist Party volunteers shove their leaflets into the hands of passers-by. We are at the Gap market, capital of Hautes-Alpes, D-5 before the first round of these legislative elections on June 30. Fabien hasn’t voted for a long time, “disgusted” that it is “of all that”. Purchasing power. Taxes. Loans to repay, including the PGE that he has been dragging around since Covid… and then “immigration, insecurity…” “People are fed up”growls the shopkeeper. “We are not unhappy in France. But we could still live a lot better there.”
In this first constituency of Hautes-Alpes, the Le Pen party, FN like RN, has never reached the second round of the legislative elections. Since 1981, it has always followed the national trend, almost to the point. Like a small laboratory in France. A circus where Yves*, an arborist in the Durance valley, says he suffers from too many standards. Or…
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