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Abstract
our democracies suffer from new diseases. Like those contracted in hospital, they come from the inside, from the democratic game itself. Populism is thus a desettlement of some of our political systems that are not able to respond to globalisation. Not all of them die, but they are all affected. In France more than elsewhere. Violent decolonisation, media perversion, acute ‘opinion polling’, all of which damage politics and refer to the exhaustion of the Fifth Republic. Far from reducing this crisis, our regime aggravates it. Far from developing democracy, it hampers it. Our constitution, which was previously useful, is no longer fulfilling its function. Between desperate cohabitation and monarchist presidentialism, French people no longer find themselves there. This confusion must be brought to an end. The solution is not American but European. The European model of major parliamentary democracies led by the Prime Minister must be preferred to the presidential system, which is bound to fail. Inventing republic life is not enough, but it is essential.