Francuska usmerena levica u tranziciji - od socijaldemokratije u opoziciji do socijalnog liberalizma na vlasti
French Moderate Lef in Transition: from Social Democracy in Opposition to Social Liberalism in Government

Summary/Abstract: In the first part of his text the author attempts to define what is the Left political option today. In the second part of the text, he stresses the fact that the concepts of political Left and Right in contemporary France still carry particular symbolic and practical weight and therefore continue to permanently mark the iconography of political, social, cultural and economic life, unlike the rest of Europe, which is predominantly living in a post-ideological consensus for the time being. The above-mentioned conceptual premises serve as a framework for understanding the political character of the Socialist Party in France (as the most relevant force on the moderate left in that country) and depicting its transformations and current doctrinary paradigm in the third segment of the paper. The fourth segment deals with the current President of the French Republic, François Ollande. The author attempts to define his politics and to determine which ideological link he represents in the historical chain of the French Social Democracy. In the final segment of the paper, the author analyzes the dramatic shift in the French Socialist Party towards the Social Liberalism and the attempts of the dominant fractions in the party to steer it towards Blairsm.

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