2027 Presidential Election: Raphaël Glucksmann forges his path in the geography of opposites

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This is the misfortune of our political life under the Fifth Republic, where the presidential election takes precedence: the only time when the French feel they can take control of the course of common affairs is during presidential campaigns. The geology of the political landscape, since the end of the obvious bipolarity, potentially recreates a new topography every five years, with new fractures, plains, reliefs, enclaves, borders, and even new roads, bridges... or tunnels.

We need identified geographers because in France, since de Gaulle, the embodiment of a political segment is necessary to bring an ideological territory to life. But those who will draw the next map so as to find themselves at the point of equilibrium must emerge now. On the far right (large territory), the problem of embodiment is now only judicial. Everything will depend on whether or not