Dominique Russo: “Before it completely disappears under the blows of the extreme right, the lawyer must speak out to protect the rule of law”

IThis is the time when something needs to be said. Whenever Donald Trump is campaigning in the United States and proving it everywhere “Migrants poison the blood [son] country”, When Javier Millais, the new president of Argentina, shows up at his meetings with a chainsaw to show that he wants to cut public services, when the far-right wins legislative elections in the Netherlands, when he rules in Slovakia and Italy, allied with the right, when he is in the parliamentary majority in Sweden, when in France the National A rally is considered a government party, a lawyer cannot sit quietly at his desk.

He has to say something. Not something invented for the pleasure of criticism, but something that is clearly outlined in all the public writings and speeches of the extreme right.

Discrimination on the basis of origin or religion is contrary to the first article^Eh of the Constitution, which establishes the principle of equality before the law. The expulsion of immigrants he proposes is contrary to the principle of fraternity enshrined in Article 2.

The control of the press and the justice system it provides is contrary to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which states that the rights established are intended to enable citizens to “comparison” Acts of political power with respect to these rights and, where possible, “Request” Their respect from the representatives. The sovereign withdrawal he advocates contradicts Article 15 of the Preamble to the Constitution written in 1946 by the dissenters, which states that “France consents to the limitation of sovereignty necessary for the organization and protection of peace”.

In short, the far-right’s written program, which calls for discrimination, expulsion, state without counter-power and sovereign withdrawal, attacks everything France has built since 1789 and its influence in the world beyond. demographic weight.

Principles of the future world

It is not enough to say; We should also say the principles of the future world, because the far right is progressing based on them Upheavals in the world that disrupt the markers by which societies identify themselves. However, many politicians, but also intellectuals, have a preoccupied posture in the present, which leads them to nostalgia for the past, which ends in a return to the old order.

However, in schools, neighborhoods, villages, and workplaces, citizens imagine, act, and find new ways of creating community: local exchange systems, school support networks, welcoming foreigners, and sharing customs. All these life forces are there, often glowing, but waiting to be brought to light by intellectuals who dare to think about the present. When Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau or Condorcet think of their society, they do not look to the safe past of feudal ties. They invent words – social contract, citizen, republic – that will allow society to get rid of the old representation and build another form of life together.