The French president’s advisers say he has managed to pass the most challenging parts of his economic manifesto in the first year and a half of his second mandate, despite the lack of an absolute majority, and that future reforms, on education and euthanasia for instance, would be more consensual.
But Macron’s decision to use executive powers last year to pass a contested increase in the pension age to 64 triggered weeks of protests
No retirement, please die.
I long for the day France is just a distant memory and a cautionary tale on what not to become as a nation.
despite the lack of an absolute majority
Sounds like they have an absolute majority of reactionaries.
Why’d she resign? I didn’t see anything in the article stating precisely why, except Marcon wanting to focus on new priorities. How does the French government operate?
How does the French government operate?
They sit in a room and workshop the question, ‘How can we make the world a worse place?’ Then they do whatever they come up with, but half-heartedly, leaving the market’s free-hand to botch the implementation.
ah yeah, its french fascism time