Analysis
As the last vote before the presidential race, France’s municipal elections are following a different pattern to the broader national political scene, with key issues and political alliances varying greatly from one municipality to another. While the Socialist Party (PS) and the Republicans (LR) hope to preserve their deep-rooted local support, the National Rally (RN), La France Insoumise (LFI) and the presidential camp are instead looking to nationalise the vote and to establish themselves as permanent fixtures in the everyday lives of French...
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How movements in the streets paved the way for the institutions In 2005, Zapatero regularized the legal status of half a million people. Since then, no government has promoted any similar initiative, until the citizen movement Regularización Ya (Regularization Now) came on the scene. “Regularization was achievable, and it has been achieved. This progress demonstrates something fundamental: regularization was not only necessary, but possible, and it was the sustained pressure of the organized migrant movement that managed to break years ...
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