Jérôme Jaffré is director of Cecop (Centre for studies and knowledge on public opinion) and associate researcher at Cevipof.
LE FIGARO.
- Are we witnessing a democratic crisis?
Jerome JAFFRE.
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We are rather witnessing a crisis of the Fifth Republic with the tripartition of the political space: the Nupes, the extreme right and the central bloc are strongly antagonistic and cannot consider alliances or agreements between them.
Thus, power in France has become structurally minority.
The country is governed on a real basis of 25% to 30% of the votes cast and the hard oppositions represent nearly 60% of the votes.
The other feature of this crisis is that recourse to the people would be ineffective.
A referendum would unite all the oppositions in a no to power.
As for the dissolution, at least in the current period, it would make the country completely ungovernable since the RN and, to a lesser degree, the Nupes would come out of it reinforced.
This situation distorts the Fifth Republic…
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