Ivan Rioufol: "Putting an end to the politics of the empty verb"

Sign of the state's disarray: here is the return of the “great debates”.

The presidential formula was intended as the answer to the revolt of the "yellow vests".

The episode had staged the theatrical performances of Emmanuel Macron.

But the performance had ended with a lot of talk and wasted time.

However, Monday in

Le Figaro

, the Head of State explained that he wanted to once again

"launch a major national debate on drug consumption and its deleterious effects"

.

He believes that drug trafficking

"forms the economic matrix of violence in our country"

, in connection with

"certain separatist networks"

.

The day before, in the

JDD

,

his minister Marlène Schiappa had announced

"general states of secularism",

with consultations and round tables.

Could France's ills be summed up in fights against drugs and for secularism?

These subjects are decoys.

To discover

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Read also: The precipitous launch of the general states of secularism

Beware of grandiloquence: they hide confused and flat thoughts.

This is true for the

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