is a news item. But a brief fact that speaks volumes. An attack on a gendarmerie and village - Saint-Aignan - by "Travellers" armed tells us it does, axes and baseball bats. The images are terrible, more terrible than we understand them, seeing that we are not faced with an incident among many, but a symbol of the downward slide of our country: organized violence becomes a mode of expression trivialized, and the police who become targets of recurrent and a state authority that appears to be much weakened, and challenged on the ground in its legitimacy.
This attack police as the clashes that shook the suburbs of Grenoble, as the sordid acts of violence which now regularly back in the news, are of course the issue of security but not only. They form, with the economic crisis which Europe seems far from breaking, a background concern that depression contributes significantly to the ambient atmosphere. In such a period, where the horizon is bleak uncertain, it is more necessary than ever to have a government strong, undisputed, and that takes a clear course. Or quite the opposite is happening with this series of business scandals, revelations, which - regardless of their veracity - throws an odor of suspicion on the majority and power.
To overcome the economic crisis as to overcome the crisis of violence, we must build massive and ambitious policies, based on a national effort and thus a financial commitment. Now it is no secret to anyone that the necessary resources not currently exist, mainly because of non-reform and even the steady weakening of the right of our tax system. Without taxation worthy of the name, no fiscal space and therefore no possibility of genuine revival of our economy. We need a tax revolution, that builds a tax code that allows both to properly fund the state budget, and redistribute the wealth for a full social efficiency. We must abolish the tax shield, which became the very symbol of injustice for the French. It is also, undoubtedly, provide niches flat tax as the majority could say. But sectoral reforms, albeit highly symbolic, will not suffice. The entire system must be put flat to make a new pact between the state and taxpayers, and create conditions for healthy growth.
Such a project requires a strong government, backed by a majority that is in tune with him, and legitimized by a strong popular support. This site requires simply that people trust between the country and its rulers. Each will measure the distance between these conditions and the current situation.
can easily imagine the temptation behind the Elysée and Matignon. Say that there is more than two years to "hold" until the next presidential and legislative next, that each day that passes is a day won, and that holiday, announcement effects and other diversions helping the majority to take the shot, lurched and come down the road without a major shock, even if it ends up worn thread. If the utility such calculations can be understood to those in power, they clearly are in contrast to the detriment of the general interest and the French. Such a scenario would be the best guarantor of the status quo, and hence the stalemate in our country's social, economic, security.
For the same reason it is absolutely urgent that Nicolas Sarkozy should take note of the situation and took the right decision, that a dissolution of the National Assembly. Clearly, the majority who was elected in 2007, in a context radically different from what we know today, has exhausted its resources, and neither has enough spring, or programmatic perspective to deal with current challenges. It would follow that the French people to recognize and give opportunities to all, this majority as opposed to present themselves before the voters with a plan and proposals up to the challenges we face.
Without the necessary shock, it is unclear how the government can get out of this downward spiral of political failure and "business", which feed each other. Spiral that favors neither the right nor left, but the extreme right, especially for abstention.
I know the objections to this idea of a dissolution. Some argue that cohabitation would paralyze the country, yet I do not think we can say that the last Socialist government, which is specifically governed by cohabitation with Jacques Chirac, did nothing, quite the contrary. As for reasons for our failure in 2002, it should rather seek in our programmatic gaps in I-don't-know-what adverse effects of this coexistence. Others left to feed probably afterthoughts tactics: after all, would it not be wiser to let the majority weaken and become bogged down for two more years, so pick an easy win in the end ? But it is not responsible for and play with the state of our country. Especially since a successful outcome is not guaranteed: it does not manipulate with impunity dynamite.
's time to forget personal interests or partisan to wonder about what is required for the proper functioning
Julien Dray
