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Pierre-Henri Tavoillot: "A mandate to fight against the crisis of representation and public powerlessness"

2022-04-28T18:05:17.279Z


INTERVIEW - The philosopher, author of the remarkable book How to govern a people-king? (Odile Jacob) analyzes the challenges facing the re-elected president at the end of a ballot marked by the unprecedented strength of the protest vote.


LE FIGARO.

- Emmanuel Macron's victory is indisputable, but the democratic crisis visible through the rise in the protest vote and abstention.

What lesson to draw from this?

To discover

  • YOUR COMMUNE - The results of the second round of the presidential election in your area

Pierre-Henri TAVOILLOT.

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Without denying these data, it is necessary to avoid false lawsuits of illegitimacy: 58.5% constitutes a clear and clear victory.

We are experiencing a continuity of government that has not been seen for more than forty years.

To see if it is confirmed during the legislative elections.

But this success has two limits.

On the one hand, the first five-year term was marked by three major crises: "yellow vests", Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine.

These three storms completely confused the usual benchmarks and frameworks of political debate in France.

We have not finished measuring the effects.

On the other hand, the results of the first round revealed the extent of the marginalization of the traditional parties (PS and LR) to the benefit not only of more radical currents (FI and RN), but also of massive abstention.

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Source: lefigaro

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