despite the solidarity shown, political divisions persist

Several thousand people marched to show their solidarity with Yannick Morez, forced to resign by the fire in his home last March. Threats fanned by the far right, born of his project to move a reception center for asylum seekers.

A great mobilization, emotion, but also a lot of political ulterior motives and a feeling of unease. It was the first concerned, Yannick Morez, who expressed it best: he regretted both “political recovery by the far left” of a walk he would have liked “transpartisan” And “the discretion of the right”. La Nupes was in full force: from Jean-Luc Mélenchon to Sandrine Rousseau, and from Olivier Faure to Fabien Roussel, all had made the trip from Paris. In the end, the fate of the mayor of Saint-Brevin is emblematic of the evil that is eating away at our democracy. Before his resignation, no support from the government, and not much from the local left who was reluctant to defend an elected various right. After, on the other hand, a contest of instrumentalization on both sides, with national personalities who turn up… to better grab each other.

Political divisions stronger than the climate of violence weighing on elected officials

Each side continues to pass the ball. To each his favorite victims, and to each his favorite culprits, in a way. La Nupes is rightly indignant when a mayor is attacked by the extreme right and complains of having been abandoned by the State. But she says nothing when elected Macronists are chased by “yellow vests” or, more recently, by protesters hostile to pension reform. As for the majority, it rightly castigates the symbolic and verbal violence of rebellious parliamentarians who attack the effigy of the head of state or treat a minister as an “assassin”. But the macronists come to neglect the violence carried by the far right, even to award a patent of respectability to the RN.

More and more often threatened, mayors remain the pillars of our Republic. If their defense is not a sacred cause capable of transcending divisions, it will eventually collapse.