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The “Fig Mag” Letter of June 18, 2022

2022-06-18T07:34:43.377Z


EXCLUSIVE LETTER FOR SUBSCRIBERS - On the programme: electoral France as seen by Jérôme Fourquet; return to Falkland/Malvinas, 40 years later; storm among French Catholics; trip to secret Polynesia.


Dear subscribers,

Since it is June 18, it is impossible not to think of General de Gaulle.

Who once had this famous formula:

"How do you want to govern a country where there are 258 varieties of cheese?"

If the number of cheeses still produced between Camembert and Gex is perhaps less today (prophylactic European regulations have gone through this), the reflection remains correct.

This is in any case the opinion of the director of the opinion department of Ifop Jérôme Fourquet on the eve of the second round of the legislative elections ... and whatever their final result - absolute or relative majority for the presidential party.

According to the political scientist, author in recent years of the most relevant analyzes of our society (

L'Archipel françai

s and

France under our eyes,

Seuil),

“Emmanuel Macron will find it difficult to govern”

as our country is now mainly populated by citizen-consumers for whom politics comes down to voting (when they…

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Source: lefigaro

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