Can sovereignty become a central theme of the campaign?

Whether economic, cultural or political, sovereignty is regaining a place in the political debate, but the candidates who want to embody it are struggling to completely win over voters. “The divisions between sovereignists are too deep“, analyzes political scientist Thomas Guénolé, who distinguishes four major families within the sovereignist movement.

“When, for one, the nation is essentially tradition, language, culture, gastronomy, art of living, and for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the nation is strictly a civic contract of political association between citizens, where there is no cultural dimensionit is still difficult to govern together“, he continues.