MAJOR MAINTENANCE – For the geographer, the breakthrough of the RN to the Europeans was driven by an existential movement to protest “France from above”. In this context, the dissolution of the National Assembly looks like a headlong rush which could also be a risky bet.
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LE FIGARO. – The RN list came very well ahead of the European elections, leading the President of the Republic to a surprise dissolution. Is this confirmation of the diagnosis you have made since your first book, French fractures ?
CHRISTOPHE GUILLUY. – Today, after several decades of crystallization of geographical, social and cultural divides, I would no longer speak of “fractures” but of a real schism, a cultural schism between the working and middle classes and, not just the “elites”. or the “1%”, but with “the world above”, that of the integrated or superior categories.
With this dissolution – the storytelling of which was designed secretly by a cell of communicators at the Élysée – Emmanuel Macron seeks less to respond to this schism than to make it invisible. Unlike the Chinese sage, he…
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