The regional campaigns follow each other and, in some respects, resemble each other.
In 2015, Claude Bartolone, head of the socialist list in Île-de-France called Valérie Pécresse
"a candidate who defends Versailles, Neuilly and the white race"
.
In 2021, Audrey Pulvar, head of the PS list in the same capital region, invites whites to
"be silent"
if they want to participate in meetings relating to racism against
“black and mixed-race people”
.
Five years ago, this slippage of the President of the National Assembly had strongly contributed to the shift to the right of Île-de-France.
Will this new controversy in turn have an electoral impact?
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The slow radicalization of the UNEF, student union adrift
The "buzz" is all the stronger since Pulvar's little phrase is part of the larger debate on the nature of the Republic, the cleavage between a "universalist" conception and a "differentialist" conception and the drift of the 'Unef, this student union which has long dominated on the left and which has shrunk to justifying the existence of these
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