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Guillaume Tabard: "The tree of the health crisis, the forest of the democratic crisis"

2021-04-13T18:56:04.489Z


CONTRE-POINT - Beware of trompe-l'œil. The abstention did not wait for the Covid to break records and establish a civic "separatism" which cuts France in two.


The health risk and democratic fear are two sides of the same puzzle which has led the government to question the timing of local elections.

The executive did not want to be held responsible for increased circulation of the virus as a result of electoral operations.

Nor to ignore a climate of concern which would have encouraged many citizens to stay at home.

The trauma of municipal elections continued to haunt people's minds.

However, it would be damaging for the tree of the health crisis to hide the forest of an older democratic crisis.

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We were moved that more than one in two voters abstained a year ago from appointing their municipal team (55.25% in the first round, 58.6% in the second).

And if the next 20 and 27 June, the participation was in the minority, there is no doubt that the rejected supporters of a postponement of the departmental and regional will resume the antiphon "we told you so".

But beware of trompe-l'œil.

The abstention did not wait for the Covid

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Source: lefigaro

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