“The judges embody as much as elected officials the democratic principle of people’s sovereignty” | EUROtoday

The day after Marine Le Pen’s condemnation of an ineligibility sentence of 5 years with provisional execution within the case of parliamentary assistants of the National Front (FN) within the European Parliament, the National Rally (RN) was unleashed in opposition to the “Tyrannia” judges. “The country is wavering on its principles, its values, said the far -right party leader, 1^er april. All those who have only the right to the mouth are generally the first to seek to violate the rule of law. »»

Did the magistrates be improperly “Ingressed in the best way elected officers lead their mandate”as Ms.^me Le Pen? Is an ineligibility sentence with provisional execution is, in itself, a “Democratic scandal” ? How, in a democracy, define the respective contours of the legitimacy of elected officials and that of the magistrates?

Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, the historian and sociologist Pierre Rosanvallon has been working for many years on the intellectual history of French democracy, to which he devoted a trilogy published by Gallimard: The coronation of the citizen. History of universal suffrage in France (1992), The people not found. History of democratic representation in France (1998) and Unfinished democracy. History of people’s sovereignty in France (2000).

The founder of the Circle of Reflection The Republic of Ideas and the Digital Review The life of ideas From 2006 to 2011, published a second trilogy devoted, this time, to the changes in contemporary democracy, then, in 2020, a work on history, theory and criticism of populism: The century of populism (Threshold). His latest book, Invisible institutions (Threshold, 2024) analyzes the three “Invisible establishments” What are authority, confidence and legitimacy.

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