THE FIGARO MAGAZINE.
- Isn't it paradoxical, when one was Secretary General of the Constitutional Council, to consider that "the whim of the judge" has replaced "the whim of the prince", and to be alarmed?
Jean-Eric SCHOETTL.
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It is above all trying to be honest in the face of a drift he has witnessed.
Active witness even.
But who had begun to be alarmed before the drift reached its current level?
Yes, I think that representative democracy is suffering from the hypertrophy of jurisdictional, national and supranational power, and that we are going through a crisis that is reminiscent of that experienced by the Old Regime with its parliaments.
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