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Mathieu Bock-Côté: "The hidden stakes of the presidential election"

2021-08-06T17:54:39.318Z


CHRONICLE - The passions aroused by the health crisis threaten the holding of a necessary debate on the major challenges of society, believes the essayist.


The polarization around the health passport and the vast protest movement it provokes could fundamentally disrupt the parameters of the next presidential election.

The question of the health passport, which received the nihil obstat of the Constitutional Council, with some reservations, certainly raises fundamental questions about the model of society that it risks generating.

But the emergence in real time of a cleavage around this issue is of a different nature and channels political passions into an impasse, and this even more when it is expressed in its more extreme formula, with the cleavage between provaccines and antivax.

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The latter dresses in a new language the confrontation for a long time ritualized between the “republicans” and the “populists”, between the “democracy” and the “extreme right” between the “progressives” and the “lepers”.

The most sterile political schemes of recent years have been reactivated to welcome this new quarrel while

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Source: lefigaro

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