“since 2005 we have had a reduction in the democratic fact”, analyzes political scientist Dominique Reynié

Political scientist and Managing Director of the Foundation for Political Innovation (Fondapol), Dominique Reynié participated, along with six other foundations, in the design of Freedoms: the test of the century. If he explains that since 1945 we follow “the emergence of democracy” in the world, “since 2005 there has been a reduction in the democratic fact. Both because the processes of democratization are interrupted or even reversed, because there is no new democracy appearing on the rubble of an authoritarian regime and then because in democracies, including historical democracies, there are processes of erosion which sometimes even make one think of movements, basically, of authoritarian transition”, he analyzes on the set of 23 hours of Franceinfo Wednesday, January 26.

Dominique Reynié also states that there is a “feeling that public authorities are less capable of helping us, of protecting us. this moment, for example, the management of the health crisis”. The politician then observes a “disintegration of the civic bond, of the bond which makes community, which makes society, which makes nation, which makes people, and rather the idea of ​​relying on one’s own capacities”.