Gaël Brustier is the author of
Recherche le peuple desperately
, co-written with Jean-Philippe Huelin (François Bourin, 2009) and of
À demain Gramsci
(Le Cerf, 2015).
His last published work is
Le Désordre ideologique
(Le Cerf, 2017).
LE FIGARO.- A recent poll (Ifop for the
JDD
) gives the left all trends combined with 28% of the voting intentions in the presidential election.
Is this a historically low score?
Gaël BRUSTIER.-
It's a sounding score which shows that the left is continuing its plunge towards the abyss.
There were indeed, in our electoral history, crushing defeats for the left.
Thus, the regional elections of 1992, which have long been considered a rout, placed left, environmentalists and extreme left at 44.67% of the vote.
If we make the same total for the legislative elections of March 1993, the left's score is 39%.
In fact, what was spectacular in the early 1990s was the rejection of the ruling party, the Socialist Party, but much less the rejection of the
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