HeyJaredFrench Politics with Amine Zidouh
A podcast that goes beyond left and right to unpack the forces shaping French democracy today. From barricades to ballots, we dive into political myths, media spin, and the real stakes behind the République.
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France’s Far Right: From Jean-Marie Le Pen to the Gates of Power - Dr. Amine Zidouh (opens the original)
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For decades, France’s far right was treated as a political force that could provoke, frighten, and disrupt but never govern. That assumption no longer holds. The National Rally now dominates major elections, has its largest-ever parliamentary presence, and is closer to the presidency than the French far right has ever been. In this episode, we trace the movement’s evolution from the founding of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front in 1972 to Marine Le Pen’s strategy of dédiabolisation, making the
The French Socialist Party: From Mitterrand to the Fight for the Left - Dr. Amine Zidouh (opens the original)
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For decades, the Parti Socialiste was the central governing force of the French left. It elected presidents, transformed daily life through shorter working hours, paid vacation, decentralization, abolition of the death penalty, and marriage equality, and then gradually lost much of the electorate it once claimed to represent. In this episode, we trace the history of the French Socialist Party from Jean Jaurès and the SFIO to François Mitterrand’s victory in 1981, the turn to austerity, Lionel Jo
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