The criticisms to which the Constitutional Council was subjected reactivate an age-old fear of seeing judges overstep their prerogatives. The hypocritical denial of excess jurisdictional power exasperates citizens who, even if they do not master the mysteries of our legal system, see with their own eyes that the representatives they elect are reduced to impotence by lying arguments.
Their sole aim is to gag democracy, refuse the verdict of the ballot boxes and precisely call into question the balance of powers desired by...