1992 : Magic potion electionsIn the early 1990s, when the rejection of the other, racism, hatred, had more and more right of citizenship in the media and in the public debate, Françoise published in the May 1992 issue of L’ Imbécile de Paris (“journal of humor and opinions forbidden to journalists”) a short article explaining why she had always refused to put a ballot in the ballot box, even to block the emotional plague.
“‘The people give up their power the moment they think they are exercising it.’ It was Sun Yat-Sen who wrote this aphorism after studying the mechanism of French elections, before overthrowing the oldest feudal power in the world, China, in 1911.
Françoise d’Eaubonne