Difficult to organize a more discreet birthday.
Three short hours of colloquium to celebrate fifty years of an extraordinary political history.
Under the Fifth Republic, there were more powerful parties like the RPR of Jacques Chirac or the PS of François Mitterrand.
There were more disturbing ones, the CP of the Marchais years impeccably aligned with Moscow.
There were more innovative or confusing ones, from the Greens to the Walkers.
But no other party than the National Front – which became the National Rally in 2017 – has to this extent, and over such a long period, disrupted and at the same time structured the French political debate.
Until justifying on the part of the other formations a supposed "republican front" whose
In
Le Figaro
, I showed how the ostracization of the Lepenist party had boosted its electoral base more than it had harmed it.
Without going back or on any...
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