The next presidential election is an election with two unknowns.
No one can yet announce the definite poster for the final.
And everyone is already worried about the level of abstention.
After the municipal records (55.25%) and even more regional (66.72%), will the preferred ballot of the French in turn be the victim of citizen disaffection?
The decline in participation is one of the signs of a democratic crisis affecting all institutions.
Parties, for example - even those who claimed to innovate - are nothing more than empty shells compared to the mass organizations of yesteryear.
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Faced with this shared observation, the call to open an institutional project seems like a horse chestnut tree.
Many voices are raised to point out the wear and tear of a Fifth Republic which would die of an excess of presidentialization.
But the solutions put forward - from the reversal of the electoral calendar between the presidential and legislative elections to the abolition of the post of prime minister, from the introduction
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