Preliminary remark: the "responsible" is a person. Exit records, assessments, claims, arguments, in short, everything that makes the complexity of politics, the head of state of a succession of affairs. This simplification to which book Mr. Sarkozy before the opinion is a primary source of misunderstandings.
How indeed understand that the situation does not get better then that "officials" have been identified and punished? The doubt is likely to rise gradually as the length of the list of sacked president. Nevermind the reasons and merits - sometimes questionable - the sanctions imposed. Let it be known, means Action Corsican nationalists have been halted by the departure of Dominic Rossi, former coordinator of the security forces on the island. And the lack of mental hospitals did not disappear after the suspension of the Warden of St. Egrève, near Grenoble.
The method, which involves throwing a few names as food to calm the munchies alleged opinion, can - at best - have a placebo effect in the short term. But the risk is high the bidding and / or disappointment. Especially if it appoints - to punish - those responsible with a vengeance, Sarkozy is likely to undermine the authority linked to its own function.
known propensity of the "omni" to want to embody in itself the exercise of power. The Prime Minister - and the government behind him - virtually disappeared from the "scene" politics, where there is a sort of one-man-show standing. To justify that it be given a prominent role, Mr. Sarkozy has specifically invoked the principle of responsibility.
"More political will is affirmed, the more political responsibility must also assert itself. There can be a strong power without responsibility strong," noted the president in his speech on institutions pronounced in Epinal, July 12, 2007. "I wish the president governs (...). But I wish, therefore he is required to be more accountable," he insisted .
doing so, Mr. Sarkozy pointed the essential problem of the institutions of the Fifth Republic e . Established in 1962, the election of the president by universal suffrage allowed him to take precedence over the government, which is however only "responsible" to Parliament. Accentuated at the beginning of five years, this gap is as follows: the government is responsible but does not decide anything. The President decides everything, but is not responsible.
If institutional reform adopted July 21, 2008 at the margin increases the theoretical powers of Parliament, it does not back the president's political irresponsibility. Moreover, the only track referred to by Mr Sarkozy in Epinal, when he told anxious "more accountable", was "the possibility that (Chairman) can talk once a year before Parliament to explain his action ". But this exercise in communication - which Mr Sarkozy has not used yet - no way corresponds to the involvement of any political responsibility.
latter, as recalled in the fall of 2007, Bastien Francois, a professor of political science at the University of Paris I and cofounder of the Convention for the VI th Republic (C6R) "is measured first in relation to the status of a relationship that is called "trust" . "Rulers , he explained, must be permanently able to account for their use or have the confidence that has been granted." But in France, no "question of confidence (or confidence motion) may be filed against our president will, however become a "president who governs" .
To defend its practice of power, Mr. Sarkozy cites the refusal of hypocrisy. In his television interview on February 5, he reiterated that his predecessors, General de Gaulle to Francois Mitterrand, "decided" "including in the detail" . Probably. At least they respected the forms and functions, such as Prime Minister. This had the effect of household to their advantage "fuses" very useful in times of crisis.
sum up: some officials are sanctioned by Mr Sarkozy, who hears himself being responsible for everything, so it incurs no risk. Used to be delivering "heads" on a plateau in all circumstances, the French might have wanted the president to take the word itself. He is not sure he thinks. "History" responsible but not guilty, "it's not my style," has certainly said Head of State on February 5. But it was the prefect of the Channel.
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