No, passion in politics is not a vile feeling.
While the French are going through an electoral period - after the presidential election come the legislative elections - Laurent Pernot, professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Strasbourg, delivers a fascinating and "optimistic" reflection on the different feelings that unfold before and during vote.
Normalien, member of the Institut de France, he publishes
La Fièvre des urnes.
2500 years of electoral passions,
by Éditions de l'Observatoire.
To discover
YOUR COMMUNE - The results of the second round of the presidential election in your area
LE FIGARO.
- The presidential election remains marked by the importance of the protest vote and abstention.
Two signs that show that our democracy is not doing well?
Laurent PERNOT.-
No doubt, if we limit ourselves to the only rational aspect, but that is illusory.
My book precisely wants to draw attention to the role of passions, which we do not talk about enough and which, however, are indeed present in the presidential election which has just taken place as in the legislative ones...
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