Liberation

Forty years after the election of François Mitterrand, the left is advancing weakened and disunited towards the next presidential election, notes the newspaper.

Liberation

had arrived divided in the first round of the presidential election in 81. But the victory of François Mitterrand remains that of a patient architect of the union.

Liberation

embryo

Without deserting the theme of insecurity, and with the anchoring of the ecological question in the priorities of public opinion and the return, in favor of the pandemic, of the social question and the role of the State, the left has assets to speak to the French

As long as you start by talking to herself.

La Dépêche du Midi

The left of 2021, torn into two lefts that we think are

would it be doomed to remain the unchanging spectator of a political theater where everything is played between two tweets? Modern times no longer give time to time, political reason has given way to the emotion of the moment, the irreducible confrontation is no longer the one between the left

and the right

we would henceforth be confined to a looping debate which we are told would oppose progressives and nationalists - macronists and lepenists

Meanwhile

La Dépêche, our two lefts, forget each other by forgetting the people, sometimes even renounce their secular or social values, are satisfied to be right each on their own.

No more projects or common desires, no more Mitterrand, a great void where they float.

Before changing your life, the newspaper concludes, it might be time to change the left.

in forty years, the most cruel development for the left is to have lost a large part of the popular vote

Le Parisien. The case of Hauts-de-France, a territory of working-class tradition, is a striking illustration of this. In the 2015 regional, the left had withdrawn in favor of Xavier Bertrand to block Marine Le Pen. This time, she presents a list bringing together all her sensibilities: Europe Écologie-les Verts, PS, insubordinate France, PCF and Génération.s. And yet, in last week's Ipsos study, that list only garners 20% of voting intentions. No more. Since 1981, in this region as elsewhere, a part of the popular categories took refuge in abstention or rallied to the National Assembly.

La Provence

François Mitterrand, from where he is, must savor the current political sequence.

He must look at President Macron with some admiration.

He the Sphinx must see in Jupiter a strategist at his height, capable of competing with him and who therefore necessarily pleases him.

Uncle was like that: seduced by political intelligence, that's obvious, and probably also a little by manipulation.

Emmanuel Macron has not planned a special commemoration for Mitterrand today.

But from this point of view, points La Provence, he found a way to pay homage to him.

Limiting.

Le Figaro

The number of patients recorded in intensive care units continues to decline slowly, falling below the 5,000 mark.

The positivity rate over the last seven days continues to decline, encouragingly. 5.8% against 6.2%. And just over a third of the adult population has received at least a first injection of the vaccine.

Le Monde

How far will the number of patients go down, and at what rate?"

Will it stop at a plateau?

What will be the consequences of the different stages of deconfinement, which has started when there are many more Covid patients in hospitals than at the end of the first or second wave?

Will the effects of vaccination and good weather be enough to prevent a rebound?