How the National Assembly turned a battlefield disconnected from society | EUROtoday

The political area increasingly more usually resembles a boulevard theater stage: the doorways of Matignon and the Elysée slam with a bang, the ministerial cleaning soap operas are punctuated by a thousand and one twists and turns, and the deputies of the Palais-Bourbon excessively overplay shock, anger or indignation. Since the secure, coherent and disciplined majorities of the V^e Republic have light, the political world is buzzing with bitterness and fury: in an more and more stormy Hemicycle, insults and invectives comply with treason trials.

A easy impression? A sleight of hand on our reminiscence that might make us overlook the storms which have been blowing over the Hemicycle for many years? Not actually. In a word revealed in January 2025 by the Well-being Observatory (Center for Economic Research and its Applications), researchers Yann Algan, Thomas Renault and Hugo Subtil word, with supporting figures, that since 2017 an actual “parliamentary fever” took over France: the “emotional rhetoric”specifically that of anger, steadily imposed itself inside the solemn enclosure of the Palais-Bourbon.

To help their argument, the researchers analyzed, utilizing synthetic intelligence, the roughly 2 million speeches delivered in plenary classes from 2007 to 2024. Their verdict is obvious: the National Assembly has turn into a veritable spectacle stage. Loud applause and loud disapproval tripled between 2017 and 2024, whereas “ideological fragmentation” of the Palais-Bourbon skilled a rise “dizzying” : the polarization index of 2024 is six occasions increased than that of 2007.

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