When it comes time to take stock, this will be one of the questions addressed to Emmanuel Macron: how did he respond to the democratic crisis?
Has he alleviated or made it worse?
To stick to the new barometer of the Fondapol-
Le Figaro
electoral protest
, the answer is clear: never have the French been so tempted by what Dominique Reynié describes as
"electoral dissent"
, whether by a qualified vote of protestor, mainly lepenist or Mélenchoniste, or by abstention.
Let us start from an observation: the candidate Macron made a point of getting political action out of the impotence to which it seemed doomed by tearing it away from the artificial cleavages in which he saw the cause of this paralysis.
Let us look at the reality: for three years, the country has been shaken by successive crises which have deeply affected the country, sharpened its divisions, rekindled its fears, its concerns, its anger and increased the distance with "the" politicians.
"Yellow vests", pensions, Covid, Islamism:
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