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CHRONIC. Freewheeling, the mayor of Paris announces the end of democracy, denounces the “ultra-liberalism” of the government and covers herself with laurels.
By Sophie Coignard
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“On is witnessing, finally perhaps we do not see it, at the end of parliamentary democracy, neither more nor less, ”says the mayor of Paris this Tuesday on France Inter. A few minutes later, she must consider that it is still necessary to force the line to exist. So she lets go: “Today, democracy is completely non-existent. It is very serious what is happening […]. Democracy is collapsing. What country is she talking about? Putin’s Russia? Of the Iran of the mullahs? Maduro’s Venezuela? Not at all, it is France that it describes. The words, for this great burn of universal suffrage in the presidential election of 2022, therefore no longer have any meaning. It’s worrying.
The same grip of a parallel reality seems to have taken hold of her on others…