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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

A Fatal Turn

11 December 2022 | Arthur Goldhammer

Les Républicains have chosen their new leader: Eric Ciotti. After Valérie Pécresse’s flameout in the presidential election, the choice was no doubt inevitable. It is nevertheless dismaying to have the […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

Who Is Voting for Pécresse?

20 December 2021 | Arthur Goldhammer

A new poll sheds light on the Pécresse electorate. It is essentially the Fillon electorate–older, more likely to be retired, more Catholic, and wealthier than the average voter–augmented by a […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

Spot On!

4 December 2021 | Arthur Goldhammer

On Thursday (look it up!) I predicted that Pécresse would win the LR runoff 60-40. It was just announced that she got 60.95% of the final vote. You heard it […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

The LR Finalists

2 December 2021 | Arthur Goldhammer

Ciotti 25.59% and Pécresse 25%, a perfect picture of the LR today. Ciotti is of course the most Zemmour-compatible of Les Républicains, while Pécresse, like Bertrand, was for a while […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

The Republican Right Vanishes

24 November 2021 | Arthur Goldhammer

Renaud Muselier, the president of PACA, has quit Les Républicains. The reason: he believes that the party he helped to found has erased the line that used to divide it […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

The Right Fractures

1 June 2021 | Arthur Goldhammer

The warning signs have been present for some time. Les Républicains are on the verge of a crackup. Caught between Macron’s LRM and Le Pen’s RN, the party’s electoral space […]

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Introducing Tocqueville 21’s Revue de Presse

22 June 2019 | Tocqueville 21

Starting this weekend, we’re going to be trying something new on this blog: putting together a weekly collection of some of the most interesting articles, in English and French, that […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

The Republicans Temporize

20 June 2019 | Arthur Goldhammer

With the news that Les Républicains are about to choose Christian Jacob as their new leader, it is clear that the party has no idea where it intends to go […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics / Européennes 2019 / Focus

From de Gaulle to Tartuffe

27 May 2019 | Arthur Goldhammer

DTo understand the collapse of Les Républicains, one has only to re-run one of the televised debates that preceded yesterday’s European elections. France2 had asked each of party representative to […]

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Fin de vie : Un tabou français

26 May 2019 | Sarah Rozenblum

L’affaire « Vincent Lambert » relance les débats en France autour de la prise en charge de la fin de vie et du droit à mourir dans la dignité. En état végétatif […]

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The Rule of Law: Battleground for Democracy

10 November 2018 | Tom Theuns

  It has become commonplace to diagnose European politics with a populist disease, even as the meaning of populism is often left vague and contested. Evidence to this effect is […]

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Art Goldhammer: French Politics

Vendangeurs ou Socialistes

10 September 2018 | Arthur Goldhammer

Maneuvering has begun in advance of the 2019 European elections. Alain Juppé summoned his troops to the Vendanges de Bordeaux, a private meeting intended to consider possible electoral strategies for […]

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De Davos, l’Auvergne

29 January 2018 | Arthur Goldhammer

Emmanuel Macron has been on the move. At the Davos conclave of the world’s movers and shakers, he made a splash by announcing not only that France was back but […]

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