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“History and the Election”

3/31/2022, 7:24:31 PM


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Vincent Trémolet de Villers. No need for the slides of a consulting firm to understand that France is not on the eve of an ordinary election. The usual categories, those which order our reflections and guide our comments, are deeply disturbed by the combination of immediate crises - Covid, war in Ukraine - and collective concerns - economic downgrading, demographic change, global warming. The semblance of a campaign that lead

No need for the slides of a consulting firm to understand that France is not on the eve of an ordinary election.

The usual categories, those which order our reflections and guide our comments, are deeply disturbed by the combination of immediate crises - Covid, war in Ukraine - and collective concerns - economic downgrading, demographic change, global warming.

The semblance of a campaign that leads us painfully to the first round is as dull as the climate is dramatic.

The entrenchment of crises accelerates an earlier phenomenon: the disaffiliation of an ever greater number of citizens.

It is the immense interest of the study carried out by Dominique Reynié and the Foundation for Political Innovation to restore in their electoral analysis the gravity of the times.

It would, in fact,

If Zemmour, Le Pen, Mélenchon first reduced the threat that came…

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