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Guillaume Tabard: "The difficult battle for Macron's credibility"

2020-08-26T18:10:12.385Z


COUNTER-POINT - If there is a real convergence between the current discourse of the Macronian executive and the constant discourse of the right on the subject of security, the government cannot be satisfied with it.


The lax against the security? It has been a long time since this alternative, which has long summed up the left-right divide in the political debate, has lapsed. Whether it is in the face of terrorism, and the breeding ground that favors it, or what is too modestly called "incivility", the demand for firmness expressed by the French is such that more people - outside of a certain libertarian left - does not yet dare brandish the discourse of the excuse or the only social explanation for violence.

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The debate today is about the distinction between words and results. On words, there is a real convergence between the current discourse of the Macronian executive and the constant discourse of the right. Xavier Bertrand claims in our columns a 100% application of the sentences pronounced? In Nice, a month ago, Jean Castex quoted the 18th century philosopher Cesare Beccaria: "The important thing in a sentence is not its severity but its certainty" , deploring that the State has

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Source: lefigaro

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