With one month to go before the municipal elections and one year before the presidential election, the partisan landscape in France seems to be reshaping itself around an unprecedented paradox: the "cordon sanitaire" long applied to the far right is now being applied to hard-left France Unbowed (LFI).
In France, the “cordon sanitaire” has traditionally meant excluding the far right from political alliances and power-sharing arrangements during elections. For decades, mainstream parties refused to cooperate with the National Rally (RN).
