2024-12-17 15:23:00
For the third time in this year of grace 2024, white smoke came out of the Elysian chimney…
February 8 announced the arrival of Gabriel Attal at the Hôtel de Matignon. September 21 marked Michel Barnier’s time. December 13th saw the coronation (tentative, wait for another!) of François Bayrou.
A few days later, the Corsicans could legitimately say: “Habemus papam” and welcome the visit of Pope Francis to their land.
This is how France goes in Macronia.
Referring to the long history of our country, how can we not compare this ministerial instability (four prime ministers in one year) to the 47 governments that France experienced from 1920 to 1940 and the 23 that followed from 1946 to 1958?
This is the indelible sign of the “party regime”. As well as the reign of the key groups of the National Assembly: if it took 47 deputies (out of 577) for the Les Républicains party to claim Matignon in September, 36 were enough in December for the return to power: the 2017 debt is finally soldered! – to the historic ally of Emmanuel Macron.
After the “I’m here, I’m staying” from the President of the Republic after the European elections in June 2024, France was left with the “It’s my turn!” by François Bayrou. The popular expression in political circles “rolling on the floor” has never been so true.
For the return to the “party regime” – which the French put an end to in 1958 – to be as effective as possible, all that is missing is the institution of proportional representation for the election of deputies. Without a real, i.e. absolute, majority in the National Assembly, the parties will continue to have fun. Don’t worry: with the proportional champion from Matignon it will arrive soon.
For my part, modestly, I would like to understand how those who aim to exercise power in 2027, or before, can harbor the hope of a majority that will allow them to seriously govern France with this voting method, which certainly gives a snapshot of the judgment of the people, but which we experimented without success from 1946 to 1958. If, exceptionally, in 1986, a majority with proportional voting emerged, it is because François Mitterrand and the socialists caused a massive rejection by the French people.
Overall, at a time when the vote of the French is no longer taken into consideration, the return to the practices of the previous Republics seems to be the completion of the work of destruction methodically undertaken by the landlord of the Elysée. But you have to fear the worst when people are neither listened to nor heeded.
“Keep in touch with the country and the crowd,” General de Gaulle once advised his friend Christian Fouchet. I certainly have no contact with the crowd. But what I have with the country, in its depths and in its reality, actually makes me fear the worst.
Alain Tranchant
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