Bulletin n. 1/2017
June 2017
INDICE
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Igounet Valerie, Jarousseau Vincent
    France’s Front National in Power Valerie Igounet and Vincent Jarousseau
    in Dissent , Spring 2017 ,  2017
    Since March 2014, the Front National (FN) has governed eleven French municipalities: four in the northeast of the country and seven in the southeast, along with one of Marseille’s eight boroughs. About a year after the municipal elections, polls found that a majority of these cities’ residents—74 percent—were “largely” or “very satisfied” with their new local governments. “A repudiation of the system,” declared Steeve Briois, mayor of Hénin-Beaumont, the third-largest municipality governed by the FN. The National Illusion, as we titled our two-year photoreportage on three of these FN cities—Hénin-Beaumont and Hayange in the north and east, Beaucaire in the south—is a projection, in miniature, of what a France run by the FN might look like. Our goal was to listen to the residents of these three cities and to give them a face. Over the course of our reporting, we found that there is a major gap between the FN’s rhetoric and the wishes of its electorate. While those we met largely shared the party’s anti-immigrant stance, worried about threats to national security, and extolled “national identity,” most of them also stressed a desire for social justice and equality. They no longer believe in France’s two longstanding parties of government. Their vote expresses disillusionment and betrayal. [...]
    ©2001 - 2020 - Centro Studi sul Federalismo - P. IVA 94067130016