Vote of confidence: “We are going through a moment of democratic decomposition”
Professor of political theory at the Free University of Brussels and member of the editorial board of the journal Esprit
Collected by Béatrice Bouniol
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Justine Lacroix, philosopher and professor of political theory at the Free University of Brussels.
As the confidence vote could bring down the Bayrou government, philosopher Justine Lacroix analyzes the ingredients of the current democratic crisis, and the resources that can help us emerge from it.
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I subscribeLa Croix : Is France going through a crisis of governance or a crisis of democracy?
Justine Lacroix: A crisis of governance, no doubt, due to a very vertical conception of power shared by many political leaders, from Macron to Mélenchon. This assimilation of power to the will of a single person is fueled by the election by universal suffrage of the President of the Republic, which one might wonder, given the number of putative or declared candidates, whether it does not end up nipping in the bud any possibility of building a true collective project and of building coalitions and compromises in Parliament. A crisis of democracy too, of course, but this is a more global phenomenon.
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