FIGAROVOX/Tribune – Arnaud Lacheret, professor of political science, imagines the consequences of a scenario where the RN would withdraw in favor of the candidate it considers the least extremist.
Arnaud Lacheret is professor of political science at Skema Business School.
The results of the legislative elections are in line with forecasts, and those who predicted that three blocs would emerge will be able to observe a tripartite National Assembly worthy of the Fourth Republic.
The debates and positions taken by some and others have seen the reproduction of a classic pattern, reproduced during all the elections for 40 years: the creation of a “republican front”, or barrier against the National Rally on the part of the left and the center, where the right is more tempted by a “neither, nor”, that is to say an absence of choice. Concretely, hundreds of potential three-way races will turn into duels and will see the centrist or left-wing candidate win against the RN.
From then on, the far-right party will undoubtedly see its number of elected representatives capped at 200 deputies, where, if the triangulars had been maintained, this number could have exceeded 300. So…
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