Part VI - Transition
4 - Stabilization measures and safeguards
The transition cannot succeed without a clear framework of political, administrative and informational stabilization. Restoring sovereignty implies not only acting, but also actively preventing any attempt at sabotage, compromise or return to the practices that led to the weakening of the State. The safeguards of the transition are not comfort measures: they constitute a condition of existence of the process.
The first requirement is accountability. Any proven compromise with foreign interests, any conscious participation in the dispossession of national sovereignty, any betrayal of the fundamental interests of the nation entails immediate and proportionate sanctions: national unworthiness, definitive prohibition from exercising sensitive or strategic functions, forfeiture of decorations and distinctions awarded by the Republic. These measures do not fall within political vengeance; they derive from an elementary principle of national continuity: no one can claim to serve the State after having worked toward its weakening.
In parallel, financial and legal measures protect the sovereign levers: securing of strategic assets, placing of key sectors under reinforced control, suspension or revision of commitments contrary to the national interest, neutralization of legal mechanisms allowing disguised transfers of sovereignty. The objective is simple: to prevent any capture, flight or dilution of the essential decision-making tools during the transition.
Communication is a strategic lever in its own right. It is uniform: the State speaks with a single voice in a moment of refoundation. It is continuous: silence feeds suspicion and attempts at destabilization. It is transparent: the legitimacy of the action rests on the people's understanding of the causes, objectives and means of the transition. This transparency does not exclude the protection of sovereignty; certain information falls within national security. But the general principle is that of assumed political truth.
This communication also has a fundamental political function: to name responsibilities. To document and render legible the drifts of the Fifth Republic, electoral short-termism, apparatus games and calculations that led, sometimes knowingly, to sacrificing the fundamental interests of the nation. The transition does not merely correct: it illuminates.
Political leaders whose acts constitute a deliberate violation of popular sovereignty answer for their acts before the nation: according to the high treason mechanism restored in the justice reform agenda item, instructed by the reformed Senate, under conditions of transparency, adversarial process and publicity strictly defined. Former presidents, former Prime Ministers, former ministers, former European commissioners having exercised a determining influence on decisions engaging national sovereignty are concerned by this mechanism. The publicity of these procedures is not a spectacle: it is a strong political act that marks the end of opacity, irresponsibility and impunity of the ruling elites.
The safeguards thus provide the transition with a dual anchoring: firmness in the face of internal and external threats, and popular legitimacy through truth, accountability and clarity. They prevent the confiscation of power while guaranteeing that restored sovereignty can no longer be abandoned without the nation being fully aware of it.