Many French people think today that, stuck between the center and the extremes, the LR and the PS are doomed to disappear.
And in fact, if we forget the PC which, with its 2%, is on the verge of extinction, the left is now tearing itself apart into three currents: La France insoumise, a PS which seems anesthetized under the aegis of the translucent Olivier Faure and environmentalists themselves divided into many factions.
Mitterrand and Jospin had achieved the feat of bringing together the "people of the left": it was "the union of the left", then the "plural left", all under cover of a great lie which masked the split. between revolutionary socialism and reformist social democracy.
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This is what allowed the conquest of power by Mitterrand, but also what hampered his exercise and prevented him from managing the economy with a minimum of skill, as a Michel Rocard would have done.
If there is one adage that defines the union of the left better than any other, it is the one according to which we
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