Fatigue, shortness of breath, challenge, disenchantment, melancholy... everyone goes there with their tearful verse on the alleged crisis that our democracy would be going through, without anyone taking the trouble to identify the "evil" that we claim to diagnose, so that the cures offered by all the zealous spin doctors rushing in with their prescription pads and hackneyed cures only make matters worse and further exasperate the citizens.
So what irks our media, academic and leadership elites in recent election footage?
Two things, it seems: an increasing abstention in the elections (high in the regional elections, average in the presidential election) and a significant vote for parties that we persist in qualifying as “extreme”.
How would these two observations reveal a "crisis" of representative democracy?
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