so I know that I’m self
subscriber to the files a bit complicated
but speak after his holiness the pope
Francois and Christian Wolf Jean and
before marek halter a little bit
complicated good sex and politics
is probably the subject I should have
choose to make sure of your
attention is constant but it
is not what I did I’m going to you
talk about democracy a few moments
in the ted format
we are at a period that is a
period quite hinge a
absolutely exciting time
exciting because that it has been
spend a few weeks ago
something that no one could or knew
prognostic ie a team
that of the new president of the
coming republic and dynamiting the
parties all at once the parts and
the political world
as we knew it to throw it
in a precipice of which this world
will necessarily come out improve by
compared to what it was since we
had all this taste and I do not think
to engage beyond what you
would have liked to say it but to
little republicans finishing all the
system a bit finishing like that so
all the prognosis we have proved
false all the forecasters have
failed but we also know that
the predictions is for the dreamers
and for the turfists and so here there is
maybe dreamers but probably
a little less than amateur racers
and we end up in a configuration
quite simple where in this period
hinge
I think we have the duty to
to wonder about what our
democracy about what it has become
and what are we going to do with it and I
offers you a little trip through
of a number of major principles
which govern the French Republic
so I know and you’ll get it
found out before I tell you that
the general principles in general
collection acquired too much consequence of
toddler development there is a
reason for that is that I believe that
confusingly our contemporaries our
fellow French people that we
are know that the great principles
are not or are not all the time
apply which poses a difficulty in
democratic matter naturally
so if we start from the origin of what
unites us as a country and as
that people are faced with
Article 1 of the Declaration of
human rights and citizenship of 26
August 1789 with a first article that
is quite clear and that is
absolutely fascinating
men are born and remain free
and equal in rights so this aggregate of
a few words put end-to-end means
that being born for each of
we offer ourselves as a consequence
the right to remain free and to be
the equals of others this principle to
constitutional value we are there
will come back is a principle that is
intangible it is a principle that is
unsurpassable this place is something
thing that is due to us as a
citizen article 2 pursues there the goal
of any political association is the
conservation of natural rights and
imprescriptible of the man and these
rights are freedom the property
safety and we will come back
resistance to oppression and this does
are not just words the resistance to
oppression that is to say that this is going
involve for all of us
individually and as
national community to know if we
suffer oppression or not and in
the case where we would suffer our elders
our glorious elders have left in
an article 35 of a draft
constitution of June 1793 an article on
which I will come back later who we
give a voice and
kind of course to follow in this case there
so that’s about his
texts
the constitution of October 4, 1958 so
5th republic is telling us now the
French people in its preamble
solemnly proclaims his attachment
human rights and principles
of national sovereignty such
that they were defined by the
constitution 1789 and continue in
Article 1 France is a
republic an indivisible republic
democratic secular
it ensures equality before the law of
all citizens without distinction
of origin you know it from race or
religion so equality before the law
this Article Article 1 is a
constitutional provision of
which we can shoot
a consequence that is crucial for
all of us know that the law
as it exists
must be applied to all of the
same way ie it does not
must not put apply harder
because I annoy or more loosely
because I will have a right pass that I
will be the son of this or that or uncle
So like other law enforcement
everyone is a democratic pillar
Article 6 now and we have
soon finished with the articles but
I think it’s important to look
what are the legal bases and
constitutional aspects of what makes
our country a democracy Article 6
of the declaration of man and
citizens tells us the law is
the expression of the general will
all citizens have the right to
compete personally or through their
representatives to his training and
to add it must be the same for
all of it either protect it or it
punished
in this context it is possible
to affirm and tell you the truth
I even think it’s impossible
to affirm the opposite it is possible
to assert said we are not
in democracy if the law is not
applied to all in the same way
you were invited to vote some
of you have done it and at this
invitation it was possible to
answer I vote for it in I vote for
the other I do not vote because I’m not
not on the lists
I do not vote by being registered on the
list I am therefore an abstainer I
white vote where I vote no I do not think
not to have forgotten some hypotheses
whether he was a lot
of you already have it
understood that only those who voted
for one or the other were
expressed since the others are not
counted this already poses here a
democratic difficulty since he
was to elect our leaders us
did it because france does it
always
she is not belgium she and the
France so we have a government
belgium was his government
some time and those of our friends
anarchist who will look at us
will immediately say that no Belgian
died of that and that the country has
continued to operate
especially good
in this context the question
pose is that of the
representativeness of our rulers
to be representative when you
were elected when you calculate everything
that with 15 to 20% of the expressions of
those who were in age and in right of
vote
from my point of view no but the
representativeness of a president of the
republic and his government is
that reflection the reflection of trust
that we citizens are witnessing to this
government
today there is a crisis of
representativeness that I do not invent
whose stigmas you read
all French political newspapers
which exists and it appears to me as it
appears to others that this crisis of
representativeness comes from that
we are not in a system of
contractual policy a system of
contractual policy
would engender the fact that presenting me
to you and telling you I present myself
for the purpose of completing such a program
being hired by
definition creates obligations for
me at your place
but in this case we see it and you
know you know it very precisely
nothing prevents a policy from not
respect his program
you would be shocked if a
politicians began to respect his
program
but this policy scheme
contractual is something about
which on the basis of legal texts and
and constitutional texts especially
on the faith of projects on whose faith
we should think together in
as a citizen because everything else
of life is based on a contract
trade relations are based
on a contract the romantic relationships
it’s sad to say but are based
on a contract there is scarcely anything but
policy that is not based on a
contract
it is possible I think to say without
to go too far and in any case not to
beyond what I want today
that politics is more based on
marketing concepts only on
contractual concepts that would make that
Committing to your place I create
an obligation of which I am the debtor
and of which you are the creditor so
this contractualisation track is
a track that seems to me to be
particularly interesting no
only for the lawyer that I am but
also and especially for the citizen
that I’m researching there is a
problem a problematic on
enforcement of the law that
makes me particularly nervous and that
may be the case for some
of you and nervous to the point of
lose sleep for some time
some time it means since my
adolescence
so I know it’s not a
tadic on sleep but the idea was
still think together about
solutions that would allow us to
to go beyond we have seen from polls
at the beginning of the week and is proud 75%
our compatriots consider that our
elites are corrupted by khalid he
must be elite government and
66.1 % I think the 1% is important
and especially that statistics are
always wrong at 88% of 66 1% of our
compatriots consider that the
moralization of the way of life
public and political is a priority
national
the question we need to ask ourselves
as a citizen and a French people
is whether our leaders
will hear that or continue to us
bring it to the precipice so I know
although to keep this statement in a state
of grace is almost an insult but
it is clear that we live
today as French in
a white year
I explain myself on this concept of year
white since September 2016 we have you
talked about the primaries of the left then
then the primaries of the right then
what was going to go out of primary school
then the champion of the left
finally the champion of the right then
still debate between the champions
then the two finalists and then the one
who won the nomination of his
premier of training his
government of the state of grace I
I’m treading on
ransacking like the little bastard I
am can then the summer break
and then there will be the political comeback
of the year after what happened
during the course of this year I
mean apart from these agitations
Political and well absolutely nothing
that’s all the magic of politics
you can consider that nobody
died in France 2 no one
did not die of cold
nobody died of the consequences of
precariousness neither in France nor elsewhere
nothing was before
we were sufficiently sensitive that he
to make a few lines in
Newspapers since only
this policy counted the misfortune
for us is that this policy I
you said it is not contractual
and if it were, we would be in
indret game here in this case it’s not
not the case there is in France a system
judicial since you understood
in the hall at the reading of these of his
articles of the French constitution
justice and independence more
exactly the independence of justice
is the fundamental pillar of a
democracy and there is in France a
judicial system that works
especially good for a folder
you madam against you sir because
that none of you is a rich man
industrial none of you are a
leading banker
none of you are a candidate
in the presidential election
and you are not cousins either
from what I just quoted so the judge
will do his job very well you are not
not in a reported folder but when
we are in a report file type la
sphere says kerviel against society
general and well justice starts to
ten officials taking
instructions no longer apply
equality of all citizens before
the law
we are ultimately moving away from this
democratic stage which is the state
theoretical of our country is if you
even take the word would not it be that the
word democracy democracy sa
definition is pretty simple it’s a
political system so we’ll see for the
conclusion that the word system is not
a big word political system form of
government in which the
sovereignty emanates from the people the people
it’s you it’s us and as for
the etymology of the word democracy
he comes from the Greek dmos the kratos people
power I do not know if we can say
Power to the people
that’s maybe an ideal but
in any case we see our system
we have
because too far from his concepts that
the foundation which are basic concepts
is the real revolution would consist
today to enforce the law as
that she is such that she is so
that it becomes since the law is in
perpetual evolution but apply it
to all by applying it to a few goes
bare feet that weighs nothing for in
exonerate others apply it to all
in the same way ie
I know it’s going to be a bit of a mess
some ministers will be doing hours
in custody
it’s not custom they will do the
detention on remand is not the
custom but that’s what
suffer our compatriots I mean
when they do not respect the law
alas this revolution would consist
in applying the law to all
in a way you absolutely fair
just as I deeply believe that
we owe ourselves as a people
French to give us a file
citizens national citizen file of our
elected officials sentenced to do the job
which is mine for example that is to
to say to be a lawyer at court
I do not have the right to have a locker
judicial you know it but just like
for many other jobs but in
on the other hand, being convicted we have the right
to stand for the presidency of the
French Republic
because it would be less important than
to be a lawyer or to pass the bafa
or only to work with children
so we see it all today
is a little 2007 2008 2009 2010 it’s
old-fashioned our attention must be
worn as a French people on
the application of the law as it has
been written and constitution
as it was conceived by our
seniors and talking about our elders game
delivers you in a few moments
text that has never been applied
but who gives us an idea of the
how we could work
set to seven aces and a system
democratic believed the difficulty for
people like me who are called
protesters
it’s hard for them to work
together because the protesters
have always waited to agree
on everything to go in the same direction
protestors dispute
agree on nothing so I got
striving in the work of which he was
question and that I wrote during the
presentation to reverse this
equation and telling me do not wait
not to agree on everything for
work together but let’s unite
around our compatible challenges
our compatible challenges is to
to say that I could when to me
work with someone extreme
right because he understood that the
preeminence of finance on the
justice is intolerable and that’s
would be a real victory of this scheme
Thursday with someone from extremely
because I’m not extreme
right so I want to illustrate at most
tight the fact that we can
work around our challenges
compatible and I believe that way
benevolent
it is possible to mark our
policies and to make sure that they
respect the law because that’s what
we expect from them for a more
great representativity finally and in
conclusion these few lines that are
of importance because
our founding fathers wanted it as
its constitution of 24 June 93 articles
35 when the government is violating
rights of the people the insurgency is for
the people and for every portion of
most sacred people rights and the
most indispensable homework most
sacred rights and the most
homework
that’s what we’ll be forced to do
to do if the rest does not work
thank you
[Applause]
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