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Guillaume Tabard: "The very real danger of a democratic catastrophe"

2022-01-10T19:52:10.787Z


COUNTER-POINT - The question of sponsorships, within the framework of the presidential election, becomes a real “chestnut tree” of each campaign.


We can consider, like Anne Hidalgo, from the top of her 4% in the polls, that if neither Marine Le Pen, nor Jean-Luc Mélenchon, nor Éric Zemmour, or even neither Yannick Jadot, obtain their 500 sponsorships,

“it” is that they do not deserve to participate ”

in the presidential election.

Conversely, we can consider that the absence of candidates above the 10% mark, two of whom accumulated 40% of the votes cast in 2017, would be a democratic scandal that would harm the legitimacy of the elected representative. .

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However, the “rules of the game” of an election are like the voting methods: we do not change them a few weeks before the vote.

But never to tackle the problem head-on, we run the risk of turning the sponsorship quarrel into a “chestnut tree” in each campaign that stirs people's minds for a handful of weeks from January to March.

The rest is itself repetitive: a relative consensus emerges for a reflection on the need for new rules and, once the presidential election has passed, the subject is carefully ...

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Source: lefigaro

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