“Ideas, alliances, the right victim of its taboos”

Never has the right been so majority on the ideological ground. Never has the partisan force supposed to carry this current been so much in the minority on the electoral level. It is this paradoxical equation that the next president of the Republicans will have to settle.

The recent Fondapol survey confirmed the dominance of the expectation of authority, the refusal of assistantship, the requirement of firmness in matters of security and immigration, the need for freedoms. This observation is not new. But the more obvious this is, the less voters turn to the Republicans. It has become a commonplace to say it: the right suffers from the double competition of macronism and lepenism. Aware of the phenomenon, Bruno Retailleau, Saturday in the Figaro and Eric Ciotti, in the JDD, set themselves the primary objective of winning back voters who had gone to one side or the other. But saying it is one thing. Doing it, and even giving yourself the means to achieve it, is another.

Can a party that has fallen below the 5% mark in the presidential election eternally refrain from at least asking the question of alliances?

The problem with this…