The left-right divide is making a comeback in the Hemicycle

It had been scrapped in the previous legislature. In recent weeks, during the first debates that animated the National Assembly, he made a resounding comeback. Hated by Emmanuel Macron and his troops during the last term, the left-right divide has indeed reappeared in the Hemicycle. Over the past five years, the Palais Bourbon had been the scene of a paradigm shift: the debates of ideas and sometimes dogmatic postures had been followed by numerous technical exchanges. The Macronist majority, plethoric, wanted to be pragmatic, efficient. We had to reform, beyond partisan divisions. For many MPs, the very concept of ideology had become taboo, even obsolete. “Don’t talk to me about right or left, these notions belong to the past. Our mission is to do whatever it takes to get the country back on its feet.”the Macronist parliamentarians were annoyed when asked about the absence of chapels in the…