Abstract
Languedoc-Roussillon is one of the French regions where the scores of extreme-right were highest. Itis from now on a tradition registered on a score of years, one period which is also marked by deepdemographic upheavals. Behind the establishment of this political stream, the political forces had knewinternal recombinings of variable width. The left, which had given its name to the Red South, is nowclosed to its national average, losing significant electoral bastions, whereas it had conquered almostthe totality of the seats of deputies, in 1997. The Right, conser- vaticve and liberal parties, marked on aregional scale by a strategy of alliance with the extreme- right, reconquered a majority of seats, whilebeing based on the birth of the UMP. Nothing states however that the power struggle resultingfřomthese two polls, presidential and legislative, will have one duration larger than the two precedingphotographs of political Languedoc, white in 1993, pink-red in 1997. A dubious recombining...