“The New Elite is not above parliamentary democracy”

2024-07-09 04:00:22

LThe results of the legislative elections created an unprecedented situation in the history of the Fifth Republic: the day after the election, no majority appeared for our country.

Despite the confusion, voters were clear on three points. First, they decided that a particular political party was not fit to rule. Not only did he finish third but the voters rallied heavily to block him. I also noticed that they themselves did not ask anything other than protest.

Second, there is none of the three leadership groups that can rule alone. There is no popular mandate for the full implementation of the government system from any of the three blocs. This applies to the Ensemble pour la République and the New Elite Front, both more than 100 seats from the absolute majority.

A majority of the project

Thirdly, to give France a government, the political forces that were previously opposed will have to start discussions to form most of the projects. This reason means that each political party sets its own positions but also accepts those of its competitors. This is the very process of parliamentary integration and daily life in almost all European democracies.

However, since Sunday, the New Popular Front has been taking power as if none of these democratic realities exist. They want to act as if they have the majority to do so. They said they chose the Prime Minister as if he had the automatic support of the majority of the House without prior discussion on his road map or his priorities. They even talk about erasing 49.3 and governing by authority.

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The same that barked “Little Managers” of 250 seats in 2022 are today the first to ask we have all the powers with only 182 seats! The presence of the New Elite is not above parliamentary democracy.

Can we imagine for a moment that the social democrat Olaf Scholz, on the eve of the election of his 207 representatives out of 700 in the Bundestag, pretending that other political forces do not exist? In which democracy does the ruling party claim to rule with a third of the seats in its Parliament? The magical illusion that the left has kept itself from believing that it has the absolute right to regulate the era of French democracy?

We have to be honest

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