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The French 2012 Presidential Election. a Europeanised Contest Renaud Dehousse, Angela Tacea The French 2012 Presidential Election. A Europeanised Contest Renaud Dehousse, Angela Tacea To cite this version: Renaud Dehousse, Angela Tacea. The French 2012 Presidential Election. A Europeanised Contest. 2013. hal-01070447 HAL Id: hal-01070447 https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01070447 Preprint submitted on 1 Oct 2014 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. LES CAHIERS EUROPEENS DE SCIENCES PO. > N° 02/2012 The French 2012 Presidential Election A Europeanised Contest 2013 Italian Elections > Renaud Dehousse & Angela Tacea Renaud Dehousse & Angela Tacea – The French 2012 Presidential Election. A Europeanised Contest Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po. n° 02/2012 Décembre 2012 RENAUD DEHOUSSE & ANGELA TACEA The French 2012 Presidential Election A Europeanised Contest Renaud Dehousse holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Law and Politics at Sciences Po, Paris, where he directs the Centre d'études européennes. He has published extensively on the institutions and political system of the European Union, and on EU public policy. He is advisor at Notre Europe and has participated in a number of high-level groups on the reform of European institutions set up by the European Commission and the French government. Contact: [email protected] Angela Tacea is a PhD candidate at the Centre d'études européennes, Sciences Po (Paris). She is currently working on two projects “The Law Factory”, financed by Ile de France Region and OPAL (the Observatory of National Parliaments after Lisbon), financed by ANR. Her research focuses on the activity of national parliaments with regard to the European Justice and Home Affairs Policy, especially border control and free movement of persons. Contact : [email protected] Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po. – n° 02/2012 2 Renaud Dehousse & Angela Tacea – The French 2012 Presidential Election. A Europeanised Contest The French 2012 Presidential Election A Europeanised Contest Abstract: While Europe could be characterized as “invisible but omnipresent” during the 2002 Presidential election, this was not the case in 2012. From Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande to Marine Le Pen and Jean Luc Mélenchon, several declinations of Europe characterised the French electoral campaign. Based on TNS Sofres survey data and on discourse analysis, this article documents the Europeanization of the 2012 French presidential campaign. Even though it is too soon to say if the transformation of the electoral rule is a specific phenomenon arising from the crisis context or from a profound change in party completion, the election of François Hollande has clearly contributed to a change of course. Keywords : France, presidential election, europeanization, party competition Citation: Dehousse, Renaud and Tacea, Angela (2012), “The French 2012 Presidential election. A Europeanised Contest”, Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po, n° 02, Paris: Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po. Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po. – n° 02/2012 3 Renaud Dehousse & Angela Tacea – The French 2012 Presidential Election. A Europeanised Contest In his analysis on the impact of European integration on national party systems, Peter Mair identifies a gap between the actual responsibilities of Europe and member states on the one hand, and the themes that are at the heart of electoral competition at both of these levels on the other. Major decisions on the direction and scope of the integration process continue to be central in European elections even though the European Parliament, despite its recurring demands, has little influence over these issues. Conversely, national elections continue to be dominated by confrontations on “national” political issues even though these issues are largely shaped by choices made at the European level. In other words, each arena tends to focus on issues that ought to be addressed at a different level. This mismatch yields a double deficit: public policy issues are largely ignored during European elections, while the debate over the future of Europe is generally eschewed at the national level, which chooses those who will take decisive action on these issues. As a result, voter choices only have a limited impact on the decisions that are made at these two levels.1 One of the interesting aspects of the French presidential election of 2012 is precisely that it appears to deviate from Mair’s model in several respects. Some of the campaign’s major themes had obvious European ramifications that led the main candidates to define some key features of the policy they intended to pursue at the European level if they were elected, and to outline the alliances they intended to seek within the European Union. Moreover, other member states closely followed the campaign to the point where several heads of state indicated their preference for one of the candidates. Considerations related to European integration also seem to have influenced the choice of various groups of voters. This Europeanization of the debate and vote inevitably transformed the nature of the election, which became an important moment in European political life. While it is still too soon to assess the consequences of the election of François Hollande at the European level, it is clear the election has contributed to a change of course. It remains to be seen whether this transformation of rules of the electoral game is a special phenomenon arising from the context of crisis, or rather the harbinger of a profound change in party competition throughout Europe. 1 “The Limited Impact of Europe on National Party Systems”, in Klaus H. Goetz and Simon Hix (eds.) Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems, Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000, 27- 51. Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po. – n° 02/2012 4 Renaud Dehousse & Angela Tacea – The French 2012 Presidential Election. A Europeanised Contest What is a European debate? In order to properly frame our argument, a semantic clarification is needed. What exactly do “European” issues signify? The most immediate response to this question includes a number of relatively abstract subjects: to speak of Europe is to indicate the importance one places on European integration, how one believes the European political system should be organized, the tasks that it should undertake, the relations it should maintain with national societies, etc. Using this relatively simple definition, one might note that Europe generally played a significant, but not primary role for the presidential candidates. Dominique Labbé and Denis Molière have published a series of lexicometric analyses of the presidential campaign2 that measure the weight of each subject (by share of words) in the whole body of communiqués and speeches made by the main candidates. Table 1 shows the 5 principal subjects discussed by each candidate. In a crowded field – since many social groups must be addressed – Europe features prominently (for better or worse!). Table 1.The principal themes of the presidential campaign Candidates Subjects % Economy 6,02 Education 3,83 François Bayrou Deficit 4,27 Germany 4,33 Europe 3,93 Economy 6,42 Education 5,37 Employment- François Hollande Unemployment 4,44 Europe 4,27 Deficit 3,83 Economy 6,47 Europe 6,04 Marine Le Pen Nation 4,27 Immigration 3,89 Money 3,84 Economy 7,9 Business 6,59 Nicolas Sarkozy Crisis 6,53 Unemployment 6,09 Europe 5,72 Source: Dominique Labbé and Denis Monière, Radioscopie 10, La dernière ligne droite [The home stretch], Annexes, https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=aWVwZy5mcnx0cmllbGVjfGd4OjFmYjNhY2MxNjQ1MTM4 MmY 2 These analyses were published on the TriElec network’s website, https://sites.google.com/a/iepg.fr/trielec/. Les Cahiers européens de Sciences Po. – n° 02/2012 5 Renaud Dehousse & Angela Tacea – The French 2012 Presidential Election. A Europeanised Contest This table also shows that the relative importance of Europe to each candidate varies. For Marine Le Pen, whose hobbyhorse is to denounce the loss of national sovereignty even more so than the Front National’s bread and butter issues – immigration and insecurity, Europe was one of the campaign’s main subjects at 6%. However, Europe only ranked fifth in the first-round campaigns of the outgoing president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and of his principal rival, François Hollande. As is characteristic of European election campaigns, it is the opponents of European integration who most directly debated its purposes. After more than half a century of integration, the very nature of the ‘European’ debate has evolved. While the European Union is still far from affecting 80% of national legislation, as is often claimed,3 it has become a key player in many areas. National political leaders know that the leeway they have can be reduced or eliminated by decisions made in Brussels. They generally tend to underplay this process, which can lessen the prestige of the office to which they aspire; they thereby largely contribute to a gap of understanding of public policy, be it national or European.4 In our case, however, this soft-pedalling was made more difficult by the context of crisis surrounding the campaign. As a growing number of last-ditch meetings took place in an attempt to respond to the sovereign debt crisis and its threat to the future of the euro, François Hollande could hardly speak of a stimulus to the disadvantaged without taking into account the constraints on France. These included the new instruments of economic governance that EU legislation and the “fiscal pact” had created in the preceding months.
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