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François d'Orcival: "Authority or judicial power?"

2021-03-05T06:35:09.320Z


CHRONICLE - If justice must be able to exercise its function in complete independence, it cannot and must not derive in government from judges.


There are connections that lack neither salt nor meaning.

On February 17, the President of the Republic sent Chantal Arens, President of the Superior Council of the Judiciary (CSM), a four-page letter to express his concerns about the responsibilities of magistrates.

The next day, the 18th, the same CSM announced that it was organizing a cycle of three conferences on the theme "Independence and responsibility of judges".

The first, on March 12, will be opened precisely by Chantal Arens, and by François Molins, Attorney General of the Court of Cassation - the two highest ranks of the judiciary.

Emmanuel Macron had he imagined by sending his letter that he would be answered through a public debate?

To read also: Politicians and magistrates play dangerously at the rupture

"All power must be stopped by a counter-power."

The word is lent to the Head of State - but it must be read backwards: the “counter-power” is the one he now attributes to himself in front of the “power” of the magistrates.

In what way, far from wanting to revise it,

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Source: lefigaro

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