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Maxime Tandonnet: "Primaries would make disputes over ambition take precedence over the general interest"

2021-07-07T21:49:08.423Z


TRIBUNE - The essayist and historian explains why the right would be wrong to organize primaries to nominate its candidate. Certainly, these offer a democratic breath, but they stage the worst of politics and accentuate the myth of the presidential savior. The...


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Author of many critically acclaimed historical works, in particular published “1940: another November 11”, Tallandier, 2009;

“History of the Presidents of the Republic”, Tempus Perrin, 2017;

“The Parias of the Republic”, Perrin, 2017 and “André Tardieu, the incomprehensible”, Perrin, 2019.

"We must find a system that allows voters to choose for themselves the candidate they want to represent all the sensitivities that constitute a pole on one side and a pole on the other",

declared Charles Pasqua, the inspiration for the French-style "primaries" on January 9, 1989. Since then, the idea of ​​introducing a mechanism for deciding between candidates for the presidential election by resorting to an open popular consultation, on the American model, has taken hold. path.

It has been frequently used since 2012, particularly on the right and on the left, with mixed results: certainly, in 2012, it led to the selection of François Hollande as candidate of the Socialist Party and his allies,

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Source: lefigaro

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