Is the France incapable of accessing the art of compromise? This is what many elected representatives and commentators argue. But is it not reductive to condemn France to this incapacity, forcing us to look with envy at our German neighbour, a fan of coalitions? Perhaps this is quickly forgetting a certain political tradition now buried.
A tradition based on negotiation and even, dare we say, consensus. This must go back to the Third Republic and its constitutional laws of 1875, the fruit of an agreement between the constitutional monarchy and the Republic. During these six decades, "parliamentary effectiveness...