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2023-05-12T17:38:37.359Z

Highlights: Laurent Wauquiez had imposed a media silence for two years. He has just broken it in the context of a major interview with Le Point. He offers his diagnosis of the state of a France that he considers decadent. It seeks to diagnose the causes of French political impotence in the country's institutional evolution. He also denounces the "coup d'état of the supreme courts", which have institutionalized a new kind of enlightened despotism.


CHRONICLE - Laurent Wauquiez's diagnosis of the state of a France he considers decadent leads to a striking conclusion: we no longer really live in a democracy.


Laurent Wauquiez had imposed a media silence for two years. It was not total, but it was significant. He has just broken it in the context of a major interview with Le Point, where he offers his diagnosis of the state of a France that he considers decadent, to the elites devoured by the ideology of deconstruction. Moreover, it seeks to diagnose the causes of French political impotence in the country's institutional evolution, and diagnoses three distinct phenomena.

Laurent Wauquiez first denounces what he calls the "deep state", which he likens to the multiplication of independent administrative authorities, which have come to become autonomous from politics and, even, to replace it, in the name of an expertocratic legitimacy deemed superior. He calls for their abolition. He also denounces the "coup d'état of the supreme courts", which have institutionalized a new kind of enlightened despotism, claiming to replace the figure of a people...

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Source: lefigaro

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