It is a worrying phenomenon that this interrupted political conversation, replaced by the monologue of the presidential addresses, the administrative stiffness of the interventions of the Prime Minister, the feverish announcements of the Minister of Health.
A stripped-down National Assembly which debates without a vote and votes without consequences, opponents who in their great majority are struggling to rise to the height of the moment, the elections that we have as a non-essential trade, the mayors that we assure consult but who discover at the same time as the prefect, on television, the decisions of the executive: a calcified democracy.
It is a strange thing to see a weak power giving advantageous nudges, a state overtaken by the first urban rodeo in a difficult district, the least spontaneous carnival in the streets of Marseille, redouble finicky health recommendations.
A country which for years proudly opens its borders to all winds, and which, by
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