Here are the 2017 legislative election results. The Republican right secures 101 seats, compared to just 49 for the PS. The majority goes to Emmanuel Macron and his movement, En Marche, with more than 361 seats. Meanwhile, the FN collapses with only 8 elected deputies. Tonight is a night of defeat for the Socialist Party. Jean-Christophe Cambadélis throws in the towel. He is stepping down from the party presidency.
Jean-Christophe Cambadélis throws in the towel. He is stepping down from the presidency of the Socialist Party.
The lesson of this long electoral period (right and left primaries first, then presidential, and finally legislative) is the obvious will of citizen-voters to “sanction” the big players in political life (Estrosi, Juppé, Fillon, Hollande, Valls, Hamon, etc.). Once the slate is cleaned, it’s the turn of the second-tier players, the apparatchiks, who, whether good or bad, with a positive record or not, are in turn sanctioned.
The neologism “dégagisme” fully finds its relevance in this analysis.
In fact, beyond the result, which has endorsed En Marche, from the President of the Republic to the ministers, to the deputies, it’s a new political class taking power.
The reason (or rather the irrational feeling) for this upheaval is that there was such a desire to settle scores that merely the prospect of bringing down an emblematic figure facilitated the mobilization of voters and favored the choice in favor of candidates labeled “I am new.”
Under the leadership of the chief toppler Emmanuel Macron, novelty, youth, and political inexperience seemed to be the best selling points. Hence the electoral result.
Besides, since the world has existed, it’s the ambition of the “new generation” topplers to become the gravediggers of the old protagonists.
by Garibaldino
