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Alain-Gérard Slama: "Our country faced with the vertigo of the loss of legitimacy of its" elites ""

2020-09-22T18:44:05.911Z


TRIBUNE - The very capacity of the "elites" - a term understood without moral connotation - to govern France is today called into question, explains the philosopher.


Normale, Associate of letters classic, long holder of the political ideas of history chair at Sciences Po, former columnist and former member of the editorial board of the

Figaro

, Alain-Gerard Slama is the author of ten ouvrages.Il has published

The Democratic regression

(Perrin, coll. "Tempus", 2002), prize for the essay of the Académie française,

La Société d 'Indifférence

(Plon, 2009), distinguished by the Jean-Zay prize, and

The Writers who made the Republic

(Plon 2012).

France is in the doldrums - this intertropical meteorological zone, feared by sailors, where, the nautical guides explain,

"the winds are changeable and difficult to predict"

.

So it is with our political life.

The former Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, warned on September 16 against the arrival of

"storms"

.

Health storm, of course, (so clear that, since the end of the summer, the lesson of the government failures of the first quarter of 2020 has not been learned),

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Source: lefigaro

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