They can be very numerous and contradictory

Comments on the European elections take place in a very classical language. The right would have earned, the left would have lost, while environmentalists have won an unexpected victory. Is - the property of this that it is These elections are interesting because they teach on the functioning of contemporary democracy. Governments are more instruments of a doctrine or ideology, which oppose a concurrent, potentially alternative doctrine. A Government is never that formatting visions and the dominant interests in a company. So, in the 1990s, the Governments of the "third way", in the United States with Bill Clinton, the United Kingdom with Tony Blair, have proposed an acceptable form of neo-liberalism: they gave a version where each thought it could make sense.

The "third way" disappeared in the United States in 2000 with the election of George w. Bush. She died in scandals to Gordon Brown's United Kingdom. Barack Obama the not revived. It is the neo-liberal era ended. From this point of view, it is wrong to wonder that these elections, which have strengthened right-wing governments, appear to have been indifferent to the crisis. These elections are the expression of the crisis, but in a context of renewed democracy. Nicolas Sarkozy wins not as expression of a liberal vision of the world, but as the man who is there does not so evil in the crisis, and who has no Challenger. Nor Bayrou, who is exhausted in the empty rhetoric of the information, that the Socialist Party, which is unable to decide between being a doctrinal alternative to liberalism and offer a form of Government acceptable to a world in crisis and transition. "Socialism", as doctrine, we refer to the 19th century and does not appear as a post-libéralisme. And this as much more than the Government of Lionel Jospin, who did not hesitate to throw on the limits of the State, had shown that it was already a Government form a bit shameful liberal vision prevailing at the time. But by ideology, the PS was unable to propose an alternative governmentality which would correspond to the present moment, and would require him to dispose of its ideological references.

A weekly title to Nicolas Sarkozy: "finally alone!" Nothing further from the truth. Nicolas Sarkozy is not alone. These elections complicate his game by return this ecological Pact that Nicolas Hulot had forced the various candidates in the presidential election of 2007 to sign on the front of the stage. Daniel Cohn-Bendit said: it is not the future presidential candidate. It is not even exercise. It is a counterforce. However, he managed to do so, as Nicolas Hulot in its time, that the ecological idea dominates the future Government practice. This does not simplifies the task of the President of the Republic, which will have to give a Government form to ideas and very heterogeneous interests. The manner in which will be processed the light-hearted case will be, from this point of view, illuminating. Govern, in the beginning of the 21st century, it is giving a Government form to its current or potential objections. They can be very numerous and contradictory. They include virtually all segments of opinion. Indeed, even those who are positive are actually remotely (this is the meaning of forbearance) and may enter in dissent at any time. This is not democracy of opinion, nor democracy of opinion, it is the power to undermine democracy. A Government can have all the opinions with him, he knows that they can all at any time come into opposition.

As well a political training today must the choice to apply for the exercise of the power or to advance ideas that any Government, whatever it may be, shall take into account. In the first case, it must be free from ideology, be both the more open and more disciplined. In the other, should instead specialize in a field, find relays in the associative movement, to be the expression of civil society structurally takes distance, but which, in a democracy, will finally the decision. This structuring of political life is not new. The election to the European Parliament merely confirms a long trend. The Socialist Party, which is not in fact naturally choose costs. The most serious for him is that, more Socialist theme weakens, more ecological theme reinforces. These elections give reason to these environmentalists who, at the height of the crisis, argued that it was only an incident in what remained the only serious subject, and that it would divert their attention: climate change. The ecological Pact of Nicolas Hulot is profoundly revolutionary and aims to transform any economy, those of the individual passions such as those of the market. From this point of view, if these elections mark the erasure, perhaps final, of socialism, it is also a defeat of liberalism.