[HIGHLIGHTS] What has become of the electoral and political space of “the right of government”?

Pascal Perrineau analyzes the nature of the electoral decline of the “government” right. Since the election of the European Parliament by universal suffrage in 1979, the right of government has gone from an ultra-dominant situation in the 1980s to a first significant erosion in the 1990s and the first decade of the 20th century.

The weight of this center right was such that two figures from the UDF, Simone Veil (1979-1982) and Nicole Fontaine (1999-2002), became president of the EU. But, since 2019, the Right has collapsed below 10%.