Is the French left threatened with extinction?
Audio 29:30
Christiane Taubira, January 11, 2022, in Rennes.
AFP - DAMIEN MEYER
By: Adrien Delgrange
1 min
The return to school in January 2022 will not have clarified the political landscape on the left.
They are nine, maybe even 10 candidates to claim left and want to appear before the French voters, April 10, 2022, for the first round of the presidential election.
And according to the polls, none emerges to qualify in the second round.
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"
The distressing spectacle of a deadly left
", headlines
Le Monde
this week when
Liberation
evokes "
a left in several time zones
".
While "
the left seems condemned to make up the numbers
"
for
the Express
while
Le Figaro
wonders if it is not "
the specter of disappearance that awaits the left
"
.
So many titles from the French press which illustrate the subject of the day and which we are going to discuss with 3 guests.
- Olivier Rouquan
, political scientist and associate researcher at the
Center for Studies and Research in Administrative and Political Sciences
- Jean-Numa Ducange,
university professor in political and social history of the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe at the University of Rouen, member of the Institut universitaire de France,
co-director of the book
Global History of
19th-21st
Century
Socialisms (Puf, 2021)
- Frédérique Matonti
, professor of political science at the
University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
, author of the book
How did we become reactionaries?
(Fayard, 2021).
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