Are the massive abstentions during the regional meetings and the relative decline of the RN a sign that the anger of the French has been overestimated? To this question, Christophe Guilluy categorically answers no. "Majority abstention" is, according to the geographer, a new illustration of the cultural gulf which separates the popular categories from the "elites", in particular political ones, and should be read as the expression of a deaf protest. For the essayist, revealed by
Fractures Françaises
(Flammarion, 2013), the RN, trivialized or demonized, remains in the French imagination the party that allows questions of immigration and insecurity to be highlighted and will continue to exist. as long as these themes are not dealt with. The error, however, points out the author of the essay
Le Temps des gens autochtones.
(Flammarion, 2020), would be to summarize anger with the only indicator “RN”.
Abstention is another powerful indicator.
The millions of French people who have deserted the polls have not disappeared and will express
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