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"The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
On the other hand, destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society has turned out to have scarce defense against the abyss of human decadence, for example against the misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, such as motion pictures full of pornography, crime, and horror. This is all considered to be part of freedom and to be counterbalanced, in theory, by the young people’s right not to look and not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil.
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This tilt of freedom toward evil has come about gradually, but it evidently stems from a humanistic and benevolent concept according to which man—the master of this world—does not bear any evil within himself, and all the defects of life are caused by misguided social systems, which must therefore be corrected."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harvard Commencement Address ("A World Split Apart"), June 8, 1978
On the other hand, destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society has turned out to have scarce defense against the abyss of human decadence, for example against the misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, such as motion pictures full of pornography, crime, and horror. This is all considered to be part of freedom and to be counterbalanced, in theory, by the young people’s right not to look and not to accept. Life organized legalistically has thus shown its inability to defend itself against the corrosion of evil.
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This tilt of freedom toward evil has come about gradually, but it evidently stems from a humanistic and benevolent concept according to which man—the master of this world—does not bear any evil within himself, and all the defects of life are caused by misguided social systems, which must therefore be corrected."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Harvard Commencement Address ("A World Split Apart"), June 8, 1978
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French Bill To Grant The Right To Vote For Foreigners
The question of whether foreigners have a right to vote in local elections is a sea serpent in French political life. A hundred times, under all the mandates of previous presidents, the project has been put on the table and debated, and a hundred times it has been rejected. François Mitterrand said he was in favour of it in 1981, without actually doing anything about it. Nicolas Sarkozy claimed in 2007 his support for the idea, before retreating from this position once he was elected.
Emmanuel Macron, in his second term, must now tackle this thorny issue. The foreigners’ vote was among one of President Macron’s campaign promises, which explains its early arrival on the agenda of the deputies. In the middle of the summer, a new bill was tabled by the chairman of the law commission, Sacha Houlié, belonging to the presidential majority. The right to vote for foreigners will once again be argued in the autumn, even before the opening of the great debate on immigration proposed by the president, which is to be held in October, according to arrangements that are still unknown.
The vote has little chance of succeeding. It will most likely pass the National Assembly with the help of votes from the Left: the ecologists are in favour of it, and describe it as “obvious.” Manon Aubry, on behalf of La France Insoumise, explained that her party “would be eager to vote” for this law. But the right-wing majority in the Senate will certainly block it.
Strategically, the Macronist majority has every interest in positioning itself in support of this divisive issue to heal its Left fringe. The opposition, embodied by the Rassemblement National (RN), has unsurprisingly made known its total and absolute rejection of the project.
The question of whether foreigners have a right to vote in local elections is a sea serpent in French political life. A hundred times, under all the mandates of previous presidents, the project has been put on the table and debated, and a hundred times it has been rejected. François Mitterrand said he was in favour of it in 1981, without actually doing anything about it. Nicolas Sarkozy claimed in 2007 his support for the idea, before retreating from this position once he was elected.
Emmanuel Macron, in his second term, must now tackle this thorny issue. The foreigners’ vote was among one of President Macron’s campaign promises, which explains its early arrival on the agenda of the deputies. In the middle of the summer, a new bill was tabled by the chairman of the law commission, Sacha Houlié, belonging to the presidential majority. The right to vote for foreigners will once again be argued in the autumn, even before the opening of the great debate on immigration proposed by the president, which is to be held in October, according to arrangements that are still unknown.
The vote has little chance of succeeding. It will most likely pass the National Assembly with the help of votes from the Left: the ecologists are in favour of it, and describe it as “obvious.” Manon Aubry, on behalf of La France Insoumise, explained that her party “would be eager to vote” for this law. But the right-wing majority in the Senate will certainly block it.
Strategically, the Macronist majority has every interest in positioning itself in support of this divisive issue to heal its Left fringe. The opposition, embodied by the Rassemblement National (RN), has unsurprisingly made known its total and absolute rejection of the project.