{"id":39114,"date":"2025-09-03T14:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Constant-Mutamba-condamne-ou-le-crepuscule-d-une-illusion-populiste-39114\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:09:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:09:04","slug":"Constant-Mutamba-condamne-ou-le-crepuscule-d-une-illusion-populiste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/Constant-Mutamba-condamne-ou-le-crepuscule-d-une-illusion-populiste\/","title":{"rendered":"Constant Mutamba condamn\u00e9 ou le cr\u00e9puscule d\u2019une illusion populiste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trois ann\u00e9es de travaux forc\u00e9s, la restitution de dix-neuf millions de dollars, l\u2019interdiction d\u00e9finitive d\u2019acc\u00e9der \u00e0 la fonction publique et la privation de toute r\u00e9habilitation juridique marquent non seulement l\u2019effondrement d\u2019une carri\u00e8re politique b\u00e2tie sur le sable mouvant du populisme, mais aussi la victoire \u00e9clatante d\u2019un \u00c9tat qui entend r\u00e9affirmer sa souverainet\u00e9 morale face aux apprentis d\u00e9magogues.<\/p>\n

Ce verdict a valeur de symbole : il rappelle \u00e0 tous ceux qui, s\u00e9duits par les facilit\u00e9s de la rh\u00e9torique enflamm\u00e9e et des promesses d\u00e9magogiques, croient pouvoir d\u00e9fier impun\u00e9ment les institutions, que la R\u00e9publique n\u2019est ni un champ d\u2019exp\u00e9rimentation pour ambitions personnelles, ni une sc\u00e8ne de th\u00e9\u00e2tre pour histrions en qu\u00eate de notori\u00e9t\u00e9. <\/p>\n

Mutamba, dans sa d\u00e9rive, s\u2019est acharn\u00e9 \u00e0 confondre l\u2019agitation avec le courage, l\u2019invective avec la vision, et le vacarme avec la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9. Mais la justice, implacable, est venue rappeler que les artifices du discours ne sauraient constituer un passe-droit face \u00e0 l\u2019exigence de probit\u00e9 publique.<\/p>\n

Ce qui s\u2019ach\u00e8ve aujourd\u2019hui, au-del\u00e0 de la trajectoire d\u2019un homme, c\u2019est l\u2019illusion d\u2019un populisme sans projet, dont la seule ressource \u00e9tait la surench\u00e8re verbale et la manipulation des frustrations collectives. Constant Mutamba n\u2019aura \u00e9t\u00e9 qu\u2019un illusionniste politique, prompt \u00e0 exploiter les fragilit\u00e9s d\u2019une opinion en qu\u00eate de rep\u00e8res, mais incapable d\u2019offrir le moindre horizon de r\u00e9formes v\u00e9ritables. Sa condamnation sonne comme une le\u00e7on adress\u00e9e \u00e0 toute une g\u00e9n\u00e9ration d\u2019opportunistes : nul ne saurait se draper dans l\u2019impunit\u00e9 et m\u00e9priser l\u2019\u00e9thique r\u00e9publicaine sans \u00eatre t\u00f4t ou tard rattrap\u00e9 par ses vices les plus intimes.<\/p>\n

L\u2019histoire retiendra peut-\u00eatre moins la virulence de ses invectives que la brutalit\u00e9 de sa chute. Car au terme de cette trajectoire bris\u00e9e, ne demeure qu\u2019une \u00e9vidence : en R\u00e9publique, les institutions survivent aux d\u00e9magogues, et la justice finit toujours par d\u00e9voiler la vanit\u00e9 des illusions\u00a0populistes.<\/p>\n

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La sentence judiciaire qui vient de s\u2019abattre sur Constant Mutamba n\u2019a rien d\u2019un simple \u00e9pisode judiciaire : elle incarne la d\u00e9ch\u00e9ance spectaculaire d\u2019un homme qui, par l\u2019arrogance et la d\u00e9mesure, s\u2019\u00e9tait persuad\u00e9 d\u2019\u00eatre au-dessus des lois. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":4000065407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7544],"tags":[7605],"byline":[9102],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politique","tag-homenews","byline-tite-gatabazi"],"bylines":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"contributors":[{"id":9102,"name":"Tite Gatabazi","slug":"tite-gatabazi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":472}],"featured_image":{"id":4000065407,"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cm_cp-16.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cm_cp-16.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cm_cp-16.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cm_cp-16.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cm_cp-16.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/fr-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/cm_cp-16.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000065407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39114"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39114"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}