Sarkozy innocent is justice guilty of relentlessness. What is left for politicians? One worries about the extent of their authority without seeing that it is inexorably atrophy.
What should worry the French is not the power of those who govern us but their weakness. Checks and balances devour all power. A former President of the Republic is sentenced to three years in prison (two of which are suspended) for having conversed on the telephone, under a false identity, with his lawyer. The conversation is unclear, the consequence zero, but they talked to each other.