Christian Le Bart

This book provides an insight into the changing role of political parties in municipal elections, whereas they are becoming less and less visible.

Although strengthened by the NOTRe law (August 7, 2015), intermunicipal institutions remain (still) at the end of the 2020 municipal election campaign a level of public action that is not very visible to citizens. The electoral debates have not indeed produced the conditions for a (new) democratic debate on intercommunality.

What does it mean to speak for others? Although spokespersons are omnipresent in public debates, this figure remains paradoxically little studied.

Can politics exist without territorial anchoring, ie without continual presence in a restricted area and without a sustainable link between political actors, local social groupings and spaces where social life and collective interests organize themselves?

In a context of mistrust of parties and politicians (distance from political arenas, ideological jamming, politico-financial affairs, "drifts" of political communication…), denigration of the work of journalists.