“The bourgeois bloc has not disappeared, what is weakened is the specifically Macronist political project” – Libération

For economist Bruno Amable, these early legislative elections do not signal the end of the political project supported by Macron. This will be achieved by reforming the alliance of the center-left and the center-right.

After the 2022 legislative elections, in the book of interviews Where is the bourgeois bloc going? (La Dispute), the editor Marina Simonin asked Bruno Amable and his sidekick Stefano Palombarini if ​​Macron could dissolve the Assembly. “If it ever got really stuck, it would be dissolved soon,” they predicted. This book was a follow-up to their work The Illusion of the Bourgeois Blocs (Raisons d’agir, 2017), in which the two economists calculated that Emmanuel Macron’s electoral base, “the bourgeois bloc, whose core is composed of the middle and upper classes with a high level of education”, was not broad enough and that it would have to find allies. Between the explosion of the right LR, the success of the RN and the alliance of the left, is Macronism finished, or is it simply in transformation?

How do you analyze the negotiations for the second round of the legislative elections?

The Macronists who do not withdraw are rather those who