ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elie Tassel-Maurizi

Elie Tassel-Maurizi is a PhD student in international and comparative law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.

POSTS BY Elie Tassel-Maurizi

28 March 2022

Elie Tassel-Maurizi

How Emmanuel Macron’s Quest for Efficiency Undermines French Democracy

Emmanuel Macron presented his program for the next presidential election on Thursday, March 17. He plans to relaunch his major reform of the institutions to make them work more efficiently and reaffirmed his desire to have a “strong executive power”, that is, a President who is not encumbered by too many counterweights. This concern for efficiency is a clear sign of impatience with the democratic process. By letting the executive power decide alone, the whole balance of powers could be affected. Continue reading >>

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