What is the universal suffrage is still worth? In the United States, not only can a presidential election be challenged but the one who pushes the revolt ended up winning four years later. The Capitol effect does not turn against its author, on the contrary it feeds the anger of its supporters and thus makes them stronger. In Romania, a presidential election is canceled while the results of the first round have given rise to any fraud. In France, Marine Le Pen, accused of having “infringed the rules of the democratic game”, is put (temporarily?) Outside.
What does justice still weigh? The authority of the res judicata has so much weakened that everyone has an opinion not according to the law but according to what they think of the person in question, yesterday Nicolas Sarkozy, today Marine Le Pen. Yet the question of knowing if it is legitimate to make an elected official ineligible deserves to be posed: it has not stopped tapping the spirits, rightly shared between the desire to leave the voter entirely free and the will to sanction the one who faulted. But for the debate to be healthy, it would have to be appeased, and it has not been since politics and justice have been leading war. Thirty years ago, François Mitterrand launched this terrible warning: “Beware of the judges, they killed the monarchy. They will kill the Republic.”
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Caress the opinion in the direction of the hair
What does the word of political leaders still mean? Most of them, to stroke the opinion in the direction of the hair, has continued to harden the tone, starting with Marine Le Pen or Jean-Luc Mélenchon, demanding not only ineligibility, but ineligibility “for life” against elected officials caught up in a misappropriation of public funds, and here they are now the opposite of what they were advocating. How to believe them?
All the pillars of democracy vacillate as the 2027 ballot approaches, at the risk of transforming it into a requiem. However, the Fifth Republic rests almost entirely on this moment supposed to give the Head of State the power which must be its own for five years. That the electoral body stands out from the social body and the presidential election will inevitably resemble a biased meeting.