ANALYSIS – Interpretations diverge at LR, between those who consider that the right is only embodied once it has come to power, and the diehards who fear the severe sanction of an electorate disappointed by the Macron presidency.
Inaudible or incoherent, butchered or trapped… Since the 2017 presidential electionand the consequent collapse of the left-right divide, Les Républicains (LR) are a precarious star, holding out as best they can against the new Macronian law of gravitation, refusing both to be diluted into the presidential camp and to slide to the far end of the political spectrum. Neither outright ally nor outright enemy, the paralyzed right has come to accept its status as an occult entity, suffering electoral defeats, internal divergences and a fall in public opinion, until it has become a supplicated body waiting to disappear.
That was before the big bang last June. And if there’s one party whose destiny was profoundly altered by the dissolution, it’s LR. For Emmanuel Macron, the new legislative elections would lead to a ” clarification “. On the right, there was at least one. By joining forces with the Rassemblement National, Éric Ciotti
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