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. 2018 Sep 19;13(9):e0201879. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0201879

Fig 1. Graph of the 5–communities of the French pre-electoral political twittosphere calculated from August 1st to December 31th 2016.

Fig 1

The multi-polar political landscape is clearly visible with a position on a left-right axis for most political parties. It should be noted that the alliances observed during the political campaign took place between political personalities that were close on this map: Hamon-Jadot, Macron-Bayrou, Le Pen—Dupont-Aignan. The right-wing (Republicans, blue) is divided into several currents which are reflected by different communities. The Juppé community is at the left of the right-wing while the Fillon and Sarkozy communities are close from each other and much more at the right. The latter two merged after the right-wing primary while the Juppé community gradually migrated to the Macron community. The Socialist Party was also made up of a “left-wing” (Hamon community, Montebourg and Pinel community) and a “right-wing” (Holland, Valls). This graph has been spatialized with the Gephi software [36] using the ForceAtlas2 algorithm [37]. See File A1 at DOI: 10.7910/DVN/AOGUIA for the anonymized gexf version of this graph.