“Richard Ferrand and the third presidential term, false trial but real debate”
Richard Ferrand, former President of the National embly. Paul DELORT/Le Figaro ANALYSIS – It is legitimate to think that all power deserves limits, but it is not illegitimate to believe…
“Richard Ferrand and the third presidential term, false trial but real debate”
Richard Ferrand, former President of the National embly. Paul DELORT/Le Figaro
ANALYSIS – It is legitimate to think that all power deserves limits, but it is not illegitimate to believe that it is up to the voter alone to say stop or again.
Richard Ferrand has a taste and sense of formulas. But to be a “veteran”as he presents himself, does not prevent surprises. By engaging in Le Figaro to a chiselled plea for a “moment of national unity”the former President of the National embly had not imagined spark controversy deploring that the limitation of the presidential mandate in time and the non-accumulation of mandates “corset our public life“. Emmanuel Macron’s opponents saw it as a maneuver aimed at allowing the head of state to represent himself, the admission “of an autocratic drift” waiting for “Restore the Empire”, in the words of the rebellious Mathilde Panot. Faced with excitement, Ferrand clarified that his general remarks did not concern 2027. But if we can speak of false trials against Ferrand, the former occupant of the Perchoir nevertheless raises a real institutional problem.
The prohibition for the head of state to serve more than two “consecutive” terms was written into…
