By Pascal Perrineau, Emeritus University Professor at Sciences Po Paris, former director of Cevipof
The presidential and legislative elections held in April and June are both astonishing and paradoxical.
Surprising, because an outgoing president was for the first time under the Fifth Republic comfortably re-elected outside of a cohabitation situation.
Where Giscard had failed in 1981, Sarkozy in 2012 and Hollande in 2007, who could not even stand for re-election, Emmanuel Macron was re-elected with more than 58% of the votes cast.
Never, also, and that since the legislative elections exist, the abstention had not reached such vertiginous levels: 52.5% of the registered voters.
The protest candidates had never gathered a majority of voters in the first round of the presidential election: it was done in 2022 with more than 56% of the votes cast and an unprecedented collapse of representatives of the major government parties (PS and LR ).
Never…
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