They needed to challenge the normal procedures

The period, helping, campaign is fruitful political innovations.

There are innovations in political technology, empowerment of democracy of opinion on democratic representation, the circumvention of parties by new communication techniques that allow some candidates to impose and others to strengthen their dominance.

There are innovations in political practices, particularly in the practices of the truth, this campaign asserting itself, perhaps more than others, such as the time when the truth finally could be said and prevail. There are innovations of vocabulary, as the theme of the "break", claimed right as to the left.

Among the significant innovations, there is probably also promotion and inflation of the vocabulary of the emergency: emergency medical, humanitarian, ecological emergency, social emergency. A cause today cannot assert itself as the most urgent, otherwise it would lose any chance to be taken into account. Political life, with its rules and procedures, would be too slow. It should be constantly speed it up, the precipitate. Everything should be done immediately, continuously. And it at the same time where also asked the Organization of debates, citizens increasingly broad and extensive consultations. Hence, perhaps, the sense of confusion that can be taken on the one hand, political life between the frenzy of the emergency and the time required for deliberation, between having perpetually to the acceleration of the time of the events and will testify of this master of the agendas is a trademark of the sovereign action.

The emergency is a medical vocabulary. The French know, long passionate for the American Hospital drama "emergencies". It is in the medical world was created the UAS, responsible for dealing with emergencies. That is what constitutes a medical emergency A situation of great danger which allows waiting and prevaricating, step that calls a rapid decision and authorized to suspend normal procedures. These are situations of crisis. It is true that the medical emergency is also the place where the sick addresses or better.

It has therefore not to be surprised that the vocabulary of the emergency either escaped from the medical world with doctors. These are the "french doctors", the French humanitarian doctors who acclimated the urgency in contemporary politics. Bernard Kouchner imposes emergency relief to the victims at the same time as the need for humanitarian intervention. He is a double violation: against sovereignty and against the diplomatic agendas. Emergency no longer wants to just say move quickly to treat, but change the priorities, breaking the order of things. It is the same sensitivity that Xavier Emmanuelli invented in Paris the Samu social, to rescue the people in emergency situations. Must be doctors of the world the invention of a technology of the emergency, designed to enable the mobilization and change of priorities where the media, who are self-employed, are highly sought.

This structure of the emergency is extended in the medical field. Act up, for example, claims as a player in the Emergency Department. Research, of patient access to drugs are never quite quickly. They needed to challenge the normal procedures. But found the concept of emergency stamped "planetary emergency" in the Unitaid programme launched by the President of the French Republic to finance a program of fight against AIDS in Africa. The call to the emergency probably legitimate recourse to means exceptional a tax on air tickets, even though it is known that the implementation of such programmes takes time.

Paradoxically, the emergency recently seized two areas of ecology and the social, where one could think that the changes were in the long term. In fact, the emergency change meaning: it is more to cope with a situation of immediate distress, but to prevent a future, planned disaster often very long term. Nicolas Hulot, for example, declares a State of emergency in the fight against climate change, even though, if the production of greenhouse gases was immediately stopped around the world, warming would still continue for very long years. The urgency, here, is related to the anticipation of a future disaster sought to make the absolutely current threat by removing the uncertainty associated with such long term forecasts. It was recognized that the structure of the precautionary principle which thus shows its proximity to that of a State of emergency. The disaster is remote, it becomes urgent to deal instanter.

That policy is now designed according to the urgency is not want to examine. Let everything what is errors such as precipitation. It comes to topple under the emergency. Emergency inflation shoots itself: indeed, if everything becomes urgent, there is no longer. There is only a mode of action accelerated, contracted, pressed. In fact, the emergency describes a form of decision-making and exercise of power. This is also why it is invoked. How can articulate with the functioning of the procedures in a democracy It is a question that cannot be asked to remember that in our tradition of rule of law, the State of emergency cannot be a temporary exception.