Von Mitterrand zu Macron

With the 2017 elections, the party system of the Fifth Republic imploded: Gaullists and Socialists suffered dramatic losses, while Le Pen, Mélenchon, and Macron with his movement "En Marche!" dominated the scene. The authors also hold the "governmental left" responsible for this: after the failure of ambitious reforms at the beginning of Mitterrand's presidency, the Socialists neglected their traditional voter base and committed themselves to a neoliberal policy in the hope of forging a new "bourgeois block" in the center. While Macron governs with the remaining "Modernists," "sovereigntist" counter-voices are becoming increasingly loud. A brilliant analysis that sheds new light on the upheavals in the local party landscape.