French politics in Belgian mode: Kafkaesque
The solution to restoring strength to our democracies does not only lie in a change of system, but in another way of doing politics.
By Beatrice Delvaux
NOTour magnificent institutions have therefore given birth to a truly Kafkaesque situation”: this observation, which sticks like a second skin to Belgium, is today used to describe France, a country which, following its legislative elections, no longer knows how to build a majority and has a stable government.
That says all the democratic drama that unfolds before us, whether we look towards Brussels from Paris, or towards Paris from Brussels. Which shows that the political grass is not necessary greener elsewhere, and that the solution to restore strength to our democracies does not lie only in a change of system, but in another way of doing politics, to lead campaigns and manage governments or oppositions.
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