Renaud Vivien, jurist, is a member of the working group on law within CADTM Belgium. Together with Eric Toussaint he is the coauthors of La Dette ou la Vie, Aden-CADTM, 2011.
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.