Oscar Mendoza is a social scientist, specialist in international development and cooperation, former political prisoner between September 1973 and May 1975, based in Scotland since May 1975 (initially as a refugee until 1987).
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.