In local elections, local voting motivations, repeat once again the voters. In local elections, local lessons warn, as always, the power in place. This 2020 vintage is no exception to the rule. History, however, is there to contradict this double adage.
Most often, municipal elections have been synonymous with sanctioning votes, and in spectacular proportions. It was the tidal wave of the left in 1977 under Giscard and the revenge of the right in 1983 under Mitterrand; the "field generation" of 2001 under Jospin and the return of the pendulum of 2008 under Sarkozy, before a new right-wing harvest six years later under Holland. Local motivations for voters? It is hard to imagine that the balance of outgoing mayors alone explains alternations as strong as regular. No national lessons either? However, it was the day after the last municipal elections that Jean-Marc Ayrault was replaced in Matignon by Manuel Valls. And each time, the
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