2024-05-09 23:11:09
This suggests a regime that is “increasingly concentrated and authoritarian”, far from its promise to renovate institutions, underlines the newspaper, in a post published on its website.
“We can already note that at the end of the second term of Emmanuel Macron, elected in 2017 on a promise of renewal of political personnel and re-enchantment of our democratic life, the Fifth Republic will appear more than ever out of breath”, we argue.
Social democracy, already in “poor condition”, has also regressed since 2017, estimates the publication, pointing to the “somewhat populist aversion” of the Head of State towards intermediary bodies whatever they may be. “We did not think that the tenant of the Élysée would do so much damage,” adds the author of the post.
And to argue that the various crises – social and health – that France has gone through in recent years have revealed an extreme verticalization of power and “notable setbacks” in terms of public freedoms, with the executive’s recourse to exceptional provisions which were beneficial to it and were, ultimately, transposed into current law.
”The doctrine of maintaining order has also, very often, raised questions. When it was not quite simply the restriction of the right to demonstrate which in several circumstances administrative courts had to defend, we observe, considering that it is an “explosive cocktail” which must be add the inflationary crisis, which makes the poorest people even more precarious and also weighs on the ability of the middle classes to live.
“The country is suffering, it is rumbling and the government seems to be missing the point when it is not actually turning a deaf ear,” we note, observing that in the pensions issue, it “disguises its die-hard attitude as ”courage” and his forceful passages in ”defense of democracy”.
And to continue that these episodes are bad “blows” to French representative democracy, considering that even beyond the right-wing of its political proposal, this “does not mark the shift into a ‘dictatorship’, that goes without saying say, but the establishment of an increasingly concentrated and authoritarian regime”.
In the author’s eyes, this is a “stunted practice” and a “low-intensity democracy”, a “pressure cooker”.
”A few Citizens’ Conventions with more or less respected conclusions or National Refoundation Councils which do not overhaul much do not seem likely to balance the balance sheet. Emmanuel Macron clearly does not have the will, whatever the democratic cost,” we conclude.
2024-05-09 23:11:09