Sylvia Zappi is a journalist in the editorial team of the French daily newspaper, Le Monde. She was a leader of the 1987 student strike in France, and has written for Le Monde regularly since 1993.
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.
