Is Les Républicains left wing or right wing?

On economic organisation Les Républicains scores +06 on a scale from −10 (common ownership) to +10 (private property and markets). On social and cultural order it scores +06. A single left–right figure combines these and four further measurements that move independently, which is why the atlas reports six.

Is Les Républicains authoritarian?

On the organisation of power, which measures whether authority is dispersed among institutions that can stop each other or concentrated in a single centre, Les Républicains scores +03. Strong executive, centralised republic, tough policing powers.

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Les Républicains

LR · 2015– · France · Conservative · Electoral party · coding confidence medium

+06ECmarket

+06CUtraditional

+03AUmonist

+05SCcentral

+04IDascriptive

−05CHlawful

Each axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →

Core principles

Authority, secularism, national sovereignty within Europe, controlled immigration, fiscal restraint.

Economic model

Spending cuts, lower payroll taxes, later retirement, deregulation.

Organisation of powers

Strong executive, centralised republic, tough policing powers.

Reading note

The Gaullist inheritance, now positioned considerably to the economic right of de Gaulle himself.

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The evidence for every score

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EC · Economic organisation · scored +06

Coded +6: spending reduction and later retirement.

Programme textProgramme commitments to raise the retirement age to 65 and to cut public sector employment.

CU · Social and cultural order · scored +06

Coded +6: authority, secularism and law and order.

Programme textProgramme commitments to minimum sentences and to a ban on the headscarf in public spaces.

AU · Organisation of power · scored +03

Coded +3: the Gaullist strong executive within full constitutional government.

Documented act or statuteHas alternated in and out of the presidency and accepted every result.

SC · Scale of decision · scored +05

Coded +5: the Gaullist unitary republic with European conditionality.

Programme textProgramme commitments to suspend Schengen and to restore national control of migration policy.

ID · Rule of membership · scored +04

Coded +4: laïcité as a cultural criterion applied to public life.

Programme textProgramme commitments to extend headscarf restrictions beyond schools.

CH · Method and tempo · scored −05

Coded −5: entirely electoral.

Documented act or statuteHas governed and lost office repeatedly since 1958.

Where it came from, and what came after

is a continuation ofGaullism
The Gaullist party, renamed four times, positioned considerably to the economic right of de Gaulle.

Scores that have been revised

ID +05 → +04Laïcité applies a cultural criterion to public life and French citizenship remains acquirable and unconditional once held.

Nearest organisations by measured distance

Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.

Countries

France

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Scores are revised on evidence, so a citation should carry the version it refers to. Version 4.3.1 is current; the revision log records every change.

McGrath, K. (2026). Les Républicains. The Political Atlas, version 4.2. https://thepoliticalatlas.com/organisations/lr/ (accessed 2026-08-01).

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