Mr Larcher, who was speaking at the opening of a colloquium on the theme "European democracy in the face of crises, what role for Parliament", praised the Senate's mission to also be "a stabilising pendulum of the institutions".
"In times of crisis, he is always wary of the laws of impulse, when we announce on Wednesday a bill for events that took place on Sunday," he said, while the government announced Wednesday "to think" about a new anti-thug law, in the wake of violence during recent demonstrations.
The President of the Senate sees in the current French crisis a crisis "of governance, without a doubt, and crisis of authority", "that of an authority that wanted to be +Jupiterian+ and vertical". "Crisis of the ability to convince, by a word of truth and not by the effects of announcement or elements of language repeated to the point of emptiness ...", he continued.
"Crisis between forgotten France and the France of all opportunities, therefore crisis of national cohesion, when brutal words divide, when integration is abandoned to communitarianism," said Gérard Larcher.
For the President of the Senate, the crisis is "above all the crisis of a power, of the power in place, which must find a political solution".
"Beyond a string of technical measures, the common thread of which is difficult to distinguish, what perspective has emerged from the crisis defined? This major question still remains unanswered," he said.
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