Claude Le Gouill is a research associate at the Centre de recherche et de documentation des Amériques (CREDA) and the Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH, ANR SoV).
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.
