COUNTERPOINT – The RN has radically changed, in its geography and in its sociology.
Little consolation for Emmanuel Macron. His dissolution provoked a civic surge among the French, who had never been so numerous to vote in the legislative elections since 1997. But this surge was against him.
On the evening of this first round, the result of Macronism is therefore the collapse of this great central current that it was proud to have imposed seven years ago. This new force, in the majority in 2017, still dominant in 2022, is relegated to third position. In a very large number of constituencies, it is reduced to wondering who to block or who to elect next Sunday. A bitter dilemma.
Two “extremes”
Even more fundamentally, Macronism, in its founding project, wanted to bring reconciliation between the French, appeasement of society and overcoming divisions, starting with the old left-right divide in which the head of state saw, and not without foundation, a source of blockage in the country. What a landscape that is that of France in this…
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