“We are in the greatest political crisis in the Vᵉ Republic” | EUROtoday

Alain Duhamel is a journalist and essayist, a political editorialist at BFM-TV, he’s the creator of some twenty works, together with the final two, Emmanuel Le Hardi (The observatory, 2021) and Prince Balafré. Emmanuel Macron and the Gauls (very) refractory (The observatory, 2023), are dedicated to the present President of the Republic. He additionally revealed his reminiscences, below the title Observer Journal (The Observatory, 2019).

In 2024, France noticed 4 prime ministers succeed each other, a dissolution and a movement of censorship, all towards a background of absence of majority within the National Assembly and unprecedented development of the intense proper within the legislative elections. Are we witnessing a political disaster, an institutional disaster, a regime disaster, a broader disaster affecting the very foundations of our democracy?

Political disaster is clear. For my half, I’d converse of a systemic disaster as a result of the dysfunction impacts all of the our bodies of the Constitution. We have by no means seen a president of the Republic so weakened in his potentialities of actual political affect. We have by no means seen such fragile major ministers that we see them as ephemeral as quickly as they enter Matignon. We have by no means seen such an ungovernable National Assembly, with a tripartition which is a machine for stopping majorities. We have by no means seen a Senate taking such an essential place, past its pure affect, with a polarization which makes it an uncommon decisive power and subsequently disruptive.

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