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Delaloye, Gérard
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Gérard Delaloye on 'ademocracy' in Eastern europe
The historian and journalist Gérard Delaloye analyses the evolution of the former communist states of Eastern Europe. "We have not understood that the fall of police dictatorships and their very fast replacement by so called transitional regimes could only favour the appearance of a new ruling class ... . Closely coached by a plethora of western consultants, these new leaders have managed over this last decade to pick up economies that were in ruins and to reap solid benefits from them. But the economical successes have not been echoed in politics. For the most part, the regimes of the Eastern countries, whether or not they are part of NATO or the EU, have yet to reach a satisfactory level of democracy. Why? I think a neologism might help us grasp the phenomenon: the post-communist elites are, in the immense majority of cases, 'ademocratic', with the initial 'a' acting as a negation suffix, like in 'amoral', or 'atheist'."
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Romania should modify its Constitution
On May 20th Romanians are due to speak out in a referendum on the suspension of their president Traian Basescu who has just been discharged by Parliament. For Gérard Delaloye, a historian and journalist, this crisis highlights how urgent it is for the way the country functions politically to be modified. "The Romanian political class ... cannot be spared a drastic revision of the Constitution without plunging the country into anarchy or dictatorship. Furthermore, the current crisis also rests on the exorbitant power of members of parliament, deputies and senators. The electoral system, directly inspired by the communist regime is based on a list ballot of proportional representation where the elected representatives are chosen by the parties, not the voters. Thus, over fifteen years, a parliamentary autocracy has been created which serves its own interests when it is not obsequiously pandering to those of the oligarchs, its backers."
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