“Emmanuel Macron announces that the extreme right would lead to the downgrading… of a country which already feels downgraded”

Normalian, associate professor and doctor in history, Pierre Vermeren is the author of around ten noted works, such as “ France which is downgrading. From deindustrialization to the health crisis » (Tallandier, « Text ”, 2020) and “ The Impasse of Metropolitanization » (Gallimard, « THE Debate », 2021).

In his statement on the evening of the European elections of June 9, 2024, the President of the Republic announced that “ the extreme right » would bring to the French “ impoverishment »and in the country “ downgrading ». However, the country already sees itself as downgraded – with the embarrassment of choosing criteria – and its population is partly “ smicardized » – by the very admission of the Prime Minister who wanted to work towards the deprivation of workers, according to his general policy declaration in January. The president’s threat lacked neither salt nor humor. He is in fact well placed to know the double effect of the two phenomena mentioned, since his seven years in government saw a series of jacqueries follow one another…