TRIBUNE – Sunday, Bruno Retailleau declared that the “rule of law” was “neither intangible nor sacred”, before returning to his remarks. However, he is right to say that we must move away from a narrow conception of the rule of law, believes the former secretary general of the Constitutional Council.
The words of Bruno Retailleau, in the Sunday newspaper of September 29, on the rule of law (“which is neither intangible nor sacred“) quickly aroused, on France 2, the concern of Yaël Braun-Pivet: “When the situation is tense, when there are crises, we must above all not call into question the rule of law. This is what protects our democracy“. The concern of the President of the National Assembly sows an unfortunate doubt about the coherence and solidarity of the new majority in sovereign matters, an area which is nevertheless the subject of immense expectations of our fellow citizens. It seems to me above all to be based on a misunderstanding. Let’s try to dispel it.
How to define the rule of law? The term “rule of law” only appears in French legal literature in recent times. It is borrowed from the German “Rechtsstaat” which, historically, means nothing other than the submission of the functioning of the State to rules. It has no content…
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