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Chloé Morin: "Civil servants have thrived on the vacuum left by politicians"

2020-11-28T16:05:57.767Z


INTERVIEW - For the political scientist, the senior administration has taken power in particular because the politicians, either through incompetence or lack of vision, no longer play their role.


The Covid-19 epidemic has shed light on the enormous weight of the administration and the blockages it can cause.

Yet you did not seem surprised ...

The crisis has underlined, and amplified, the dysfunctions of our collective decision-making and public action mechanisms.

They are certainly not new, and I had seen them in my duties in the service of the government between 2012 and 2017: we have had a problem of collective decision-making for a long time, especially because of what I call the democratic apathy.

More and more citizens are turning their backs on the vote, on parties and unions, because they do not feel that they are heard or represented.

The fact that public action no longer seems able to deliver on political promises is not new either.

But with Covid-19, these dysfunctions took a tragic turn - I am thinking of the episode of the masks, for example.

We can also cite, in a register that is rather absurd,

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Source: lefigaro

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