“Without strengthening the power of the elected officials of the local and Senate, the introduction of voting in the scale will risk to emphasize the crisis of democracy”

2024-09-12 08:00:03

Lhe sea snake resurfaces in the troubled waters of the political blockage and the fragmentation of the military in the Palais-Bourbon. Presented as a wonderful solution to the inconsistency of the Constitution and as a democratic renewal capable of entering the Fifth Republic into a period of agreement, the proper election has already been tested in our country and under the current government, although it put yourself into practice. at the departmental and not the national level.

Long life, the return announced but not implemented, the legislative power exhausted by the renewal of the government: it is in this landscape that does not have solutions that the repeated hesitation of the vote takes shape today. If this eternal debate fails to make an effective change in the voting system for the legislative elections, it is probably because we forget to talk about what is important: the future that we want to give to local democracy. Where is the local elected official in all this? A question arises on television programs to which it is necessary to provide an answer.

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The risk of weakening the link between the MP and the civil society in the region is, in fact, among the main arguments defended by supporters of the status quo. With full representation, we will not vote for a candidate tied to your region but for a list of candidates established at the national level. Political parties will then be able to favor people known in the media and well-established in their areas, to the detriment of candidates from categories with less electoral weight.

However, the dream of a deep reform which will raise the proximity and hold the elected officials in one of the republican project is not completely forbidden, if we go beyond the mere evolution of the legislative election. Without strengthening the power of elected local authorities and the Senate, the introduction of this electoral system will also risk accentuating the crisis of democracy. In the question, of course, of moving forward in order to make a better correction by opening the debate, also frequent, on the accumulation of orders, the prohibitions of which we have improved and benefited.