Director of Ifop's opinion department, Jérôme Fourquet is the author of
L'Archipel français.
Birth of a Multiple and Divided Nation
(Threshold), Political Book Prize 2019.
LE FIGARO-.
Short-term injunctions, permanent reaction and unpredictability ... Since the start of the Covid-19 epidemic, the executive's agenda has been dictated by the evolution of the health situation.
Has the exercise of power changed form?
Jérôme FOURQUET-.
Undoubtedly.
The health, economic and social crises have changed the face of the country and the way of governing.
The executive resembles the crew of a ship which has been abruptly navigated in heavy weather.
We lower the sails, we try to drive as accurately as possible, reactivity becomes the rule, the field of vision is reduced to concentrate on the short time.
The dictatorship of emergency parasitizes the exercise of power.
The government's “spare brain time” is shrinking.
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