(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Michel Barnier warned that France has reached its “moment of truth,” as far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to join a left-wing coalition to topple his government as soon as this week.Most Read from BloombergAs Wars Rage, Cities Face a Dark New Era of Urban DestructionRiyadh Metro Partially Opens in Bid to Ease City’s Traffic JamsSubscribe to the Bloomberg Daybreak podcast on Apple, Spotify or anywhere you listen.Le Pen’s National Rally as well as a leftist
The current left isn’t “far-left” at all. Is it far-fetched to protect essential needs of your popular classes like keeping public services operating, ensuring proper education and healthcare while hunting down corporate abuse of public funds? All while proposing a balanced budget for it? That’s what I would expect the government doing, and this is the reason the NFP made all its amendments to the budget that was being prepared. That is, until Michel decided to pull a 49.3 to override the decision and get rid of the amendments Emmanuel didn’t like. You have to understand that the president gets to select his own prime minister, no one gets to vote.
Having said that, neither the left nor the right wanted Michel as prime minister and each had their own ideas about who should take the position, so it’s in everyone’s interest (except Macron) to eject him and then push for their own candidate. This is possible after Michel issuing a 49.3.
This is the system working as expected with the current rules, and a president that clings to power very very desperately with forces trying to fight him back while also fighting amongst themselves when they get a chance.
But boy did I wish Emmanuel’s gang didn’t cling as hard to power like they’re doing. It feels very underhanded.
See, this is what I’m talking about. I wonder if there is an exact mirror-image complaint from the opposite side, with just as impassioned a presentation, that talks about how the budget isn’t austere enough, and doesn’t do enough to crack down on immigrants, and that’s the reason why we have to eject the current government. The stuff in the article sounds much more like that side. Everything in it is that National Rally is withdrawing support because the current plans don’t go far enough in hurting ordinary people. Right?
I’m saying that same pattern is exactly what happened in the US. Everyone had their own reasons they absorbed from social media why
BidenHarris was totally unacceptable, and the reasons weren’t even consistent with each other, just tailored to what would resonate with each individual person.Heshe was way too hard on Israel, and way too soft on Israel, and way too corporate-friendly, and way too much of a communist with her economics, and so on and so on, depending on the person. And the solution proposed was going to make the left’s version of what was the problem a whole lot worse.It would be weird if both elections happened to follow the exact same pattern, with the result that the country’s government collapsed “democratically” into impotence in exactly the same way. Right?
And yes, I realize it’s hilarious for an American to be implying that someone is meddling in our elections to force in a leader that’s aligned with our interests, and against the interests of the people of the country, as if it’s all unfair for that to happen.
The secret ingredient is misinformation.