Turning From the Rigor, TCE, Quinquennat Hollande: "The Contemporary Left Has Suffered Its Three 'Pitches'"

Twenty years after the "no" of the French in the referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty, Francis Daspe is president of AGAUREPS-Prometheus, returns to a forum for Marianne on the three historical betrayals of the left, including the adoption of the Treaty in Lisbon in 2007.

Feeling of "democratic denial", lack of a new referendum: the adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon, despite the victory of the "no" in the 2005 referendum on the European Constitution, still leaves a stumbling wound in French political life.

LANTISCHE. Twenty years ago, the French rejected the European Constitutional Treaty by referendum. However, in 2007, a quasi-identical text, the Treaty of Lisbon, was adopted without popular consultation. A review of an episode that profoundly marked French democracy.