Jacques Julliard is an editorial writer for the weekly
Marianne.
The presidential election, this is both its virtue and its vice, has the effect of simplifying political life outrageously, by only revealing the dominant currents of opinion at a given moment.
The day after Emmanuel Macron's re-election (April 24, 2022), it was decreed a little hastily that French opinion was divided into three major groups: the far left (Jean-Luc Mélenchon), the far right (Marine Le Pen) and the center (Emmanuel Macron himself).
Pulverized, disappeared, the moderate left (the PS of Anne Hidalgo), the moderate right (Les Républicains of Valérie Pécresse), which were historically the backbone of the Fifth Republic.
The legislative elections that followed showed that this was not the case.
The Republicans have saved half of their massive contingent from the previous legislature: with 61 deputies, they are even in the position of arbiters in the new Assembly, without…
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