Founding text
Neither nostalgia nor a saviour: authority that serves, rather than serving itself.
Nouvelle Monarchie starts with a simple question: how can the state recover a long-term perspective without moving citizens even further away from decision-making?
Why this name?
Because it forces us to face what is missing today: continuity, arbitration and a sense of duty. The word is unsettling, and that is part of its purpose. But it conceals neither a hereditary crown nor a return to the Ancien Régime. It names the idea of enduring authority, limited by law and accountable for its actions.
The people remain sovereign
Voting should never mean handing over a blank cheque for several years. On choices that profoundly affect the country, citizens should be able to speak again, initiate discussion and, when the conditions are met, decide directly. Consultation and public evaluation must stop being decorative additions.
Authority must answer for its decisions
Legitimacy comes neither from a title nor from staging. It is recognised in conduct: protecting freedoms, applying the same rule to everyone, explaining decisions and accepting responsibility for them. Firmness is not arbitrariness; unity does not require uniformity.
Politics must not be bought
Money is needed for some expenses. It must never buy obedience, visibility or a future obligation. This project rejects paid political advertising and favours that must later be repaid. Donations by legal entities, including companies, are already prohibited by law; this is not presented as a special virtue. Any necessary expenditure must be declared, explained and subject to election rules.
Our red line
We will build nothing on racial, religious or social hatred, or on calls for violence. A person answers for their actions, never for an identity attributed to them. Human dignity, freedom of conscience and the rule of law are not verbal precautions: they are the foundations.
Examine the working programme Take part — French form
English version of the French page. Links marked “French” lead to material that has not been translated.
The audio summary
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This summary introduces Nouvelle Monarchie’s manifesto. It describes the position of the initiative led by Daniel Ricklin. The manifesto begins with a question: how can the state maintain continuity and an ability to arbitrate without moving citizens further away from decisions? The name Nouvelle Monarchie describes a proposal for lasting and accountable authority. The document explicitly rejects hereditary power and a return to France’s old regime. Sovereignty remains with the people. In the manifesto’s account, an election should not amount to granting a blank cheque for several years. Consultation, open debate and public evaluation should have practical effects, under conditions that must be defined and scrutinised. The working programme develops some of the proposed institutional mechanisms. The text also argues that authority must protect freedoms, apply the same rules to everyone and explain decisions. The initiative rejects purchasing political advertising and states that spending must be declared under electoral rules. It acknowledges that the legal prohibition on corporate donations already exists; it does not present that prohibition as a voluntary innovation. Finally, the manifesto rejects hatred and calls to violence. It identifies human dignity, freedom of conscience and the rule of law as foundations. This audio summarises the document. It is not an endorsement or a substitute for the legal changes needed to implement a proposal.