LE FIGARO - Elisabeth Borne will deliver her general policy speech on July 6 without being able to rely on a clear majority, and should immediately face a motion of censure.
Is this turbulent start to the five-year term part of a deeper democratic crisis?
Marcel GAUCHET
- It is a good illustration, indeed, of the creeping crisis which affects democracy.
Macronism is the very example, on arrival, of a party of defensive concentration of the “elites” brought to unite against the “people”.
Which "people" is locked up in more or less powerless "populist" protests, torn as it is between radical depoliticization and antagonistic demagogic radicalism, which can only remain a minority, even at high water levels.
At least these protests testify to deep problems that deaf and blind elites do not want to see or hear, when it should be their role to tackle them head-on.
That is what…
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