TRIBUNE – For the emeritus professor of political science at the Panthéon-Assas University, the bipolarization of political life should not be reconstituted so quickly. In this context, moving towards a new reading of institutions becomes essential.
The Fifth Republic is going through a crisis which is not simply political or institutional, but which affects the heart of the regime as it has been consolidated since 1962. We must take full measure of it.
In 1962, the double Gaullist victory in the referendum instituting the popular election of the President of the Republic and in the legislative elections that followed the dissolution of the National Assembly established the features of the regime: at the top of the institutions, the president is at the same time head of state and head of the political majority that governs the country. This political and institutional arrangement resulted in a bipolarization that held up for sixty years, despite two types of accidents: the failure of one of the competing blocs (the left), which led to a one-off bipolarization with the center (1969: Pompidou/Poher) or with the extreme right (2002: Chirac/Le Pen), or the absence of a parliamentary majority during the presidential term…
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