Since the election of the European Parliament by universal suffrage in 1979, the right of government, which combined the neo-Gaullist tradition and that of the center right, has gone from an ultra-dominant situation in the 1980s (between 37% and 43% of the vote). ) to a first significant erosion in the 1990s and the first decade of the 20th century (between 25% and 29%).
In the 1980s and 1990s, the weight of this center right was such that two figures from the UDF, Simone Veil (1979-1982) and Nicole Fontaine (1999-2002), became president of the European Parliament.
But, since 2019, the right has collapsed below 10%.
Away from national power for twelve years, it no longer plays, on the national and European level, than the role of witness to a bygone era.
French influence in Strasbourg has suffered, and the major party of the European right, the European People's Party (EPP) is led by the German CDU-CSU (Manfred Weber president of the EPP group since 2022) or by…
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