These two parties are in danger of disappearing materially, financially and, above all, politically. It is their very raison d’être that is in question. What good are government parties, right and left, when Emmanuel Macron occupies all the central space? And how to find oxygen when they find themselves sandwiched between the extreme right of Marine Le Pen on one side and the radical left of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the other? Therefore, for LR as for the PS, there are only two possible paths: alliance with a re-elected Emmanuel Macron or remaining in opposition throughout the second five-year term.
Nicolas Sarkozy echoes this. In his statement calling for blocking the far right by voting for his successor, he explains that the “fidelity” of the right “to republican values and the culture of government” should encourage him to rally Emmanuel Macron. And maybe as soon as the legislative ones. His best enemy on the right, Jean-François Copé, advocates the same strategy. Why continue to fight a president who pursues, more or less, a policy that suits the moderate, liberal and European right?
But many leaders like Eric Ciotti, Laurent Wauquiez or Bruno Retailleau refuse to call for a vote on Macron on April 24 and want to perpetuate an uncompromising opposition after the presidential election. Basically, it is the implosion that threatens LR between two families, one moderate and reformist, soluble in macronism, and the other radical, eaten away by identity issues, which aims to get closer to the far right.
The Socialists are one step ahead in decomposition. It dates back to 2017. It is not dislocation that threatens them today, it is pure and simple disappearance. Especially now that Jean-Luc Mélenchon has strengthened the leadership of the Insoumis on the entire left. Result, one of the former First Secretaries of the PS, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, outright calls for a “congress of self-dissolution” of the PS. In short, it would be time to do hara-kiri, before a hypothetical refoundation. As if the last believers who still have faith in socialism had only one way out: to believe in the resurrection. That’s good: next Sunday is Easter… Finally, a glimmer of hope for the PS!