Arnaud Benedetti is associate professor at Paris-Sorbonne University. He is editor-in-chief of the political and parliamentary review. He published
How are the politicians dead?
- The great malaise of power
(editions of Cerf, November 2021).
The National Assembly is a cauldron, it always has been, the level of boiling there is variable.
But it is clear that the combination of French fractures and the absence of an absolute majority which partly results from the former accentuates the tensions and reveals, in a word, an exacerbated anomie.
Much has been said about the incidents in the sessions relating to the first reading of the bill concerning pensions;
yet they were part of a national representation whose opposition consists in doing everything possible to delay the adoption of a text, even though some of the verbal and behavioral elements of this strategy might not be missing to awaken a latent form of anti-parliamentarianism which only requires
“the most shared thing in the world”
.
The arm of honor which the Keeper of the Seals gratified the intervention of the president of the LR parliamentary group, Olivier Marleix, is of another register.
First of all because it is the unrestrained expression of a member of the executive to the address of a member of Parliament, depositary as such of part of the representation of the nation and its sovereignty, but then because it signifies or attests to this moment of singular relaxation that macronism embodies in its practice of power.
The most symbolic forms of self-control and respect for customs seem degraded, even abandoned in a permanent transgression.
We no longer hold each other, or less and less, as if the behavior of
Exemplarity is no more than the specter which in Hamlet hovers over the Kingdom of Denmark.
Arnaud Benedetti
Virtue is not just a matter of energy in the Machiavellian sense, it is also a disposition not to shock, not to provoke, to avoid damaging power in a debauchery of insolence.
The gesture of Mr. Dupond-Moretti crystallizes or condenses all that macronism can have of repellent for whole segments of opinion: a casualness of State, the diffracted feeling of a political nature which "believes itself allowed everything" to use a familiar expression and in this way allows itself all the freedoms, the eternal return of what "they come to get me" at the time of the Benalla affair and that the "yellow vests" took, a few months later , at the foot of the letter.
It is the amnesia of a power that "traps" the lessons it claims to have retained but which
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This unbridled communication, devoid most of the time of superego, highlights this rupture operated by Emmanuel Macron with this implicit rule which over time,
nolens volens
, had ended up dismissing any political leader in trouble with the justice, the time that the latter delivers its decision.
Exemplarity is no more than the specter which in Hamlet hovers over the Kingdom of Denmark.
A beer in hand in Africa or a deliberately provocative gesture in support in the hemicycle, the power of the moment seems to care all the more about the form of its expression as the substance of its "uninhibited" practice becomes routine, s settles into a thick indifference, without any other criticism or indignation than those of a few very solitary and little heard voices... Everything happens as if all this were normal, whereas never for more than half a century has the moral crisis of the policy has been so strong in France.
To the weariness of time, to its civic laziness,
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