When we look back on forty years of European elections, we are struck by the extent of the disintegration of the left, but also by its profound internal recomposition.
From 1979, the first European elections by direct universal suffrage, to 2019, the last reference for this election, the left lost 19 points and has fallen, since 2014, below the mark of 35% of votes cast.
The collapse of the PS within a left in sharp decline
This phenomenon is not linked only to the European elections.
In four decades of presidential elections the disintegration of the left has been of the same magnitude.
From 1981 to 2022, the left went from 46.8% to 31.9%.
The loss is about 15 points.
The last decades have seen a profound loss of electoral influence on the left.
This was accompanied by a drastic restructuring of the balance between the different currents which historically constituted it.
The government parties which had made the heyday of the French left under the Fifth Republic, and particularly…
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