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2024-12-04 22:04 UTC

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca Motion of censure passed by a wide margin, Barnier is out. This is not chaos, it is the workings, however fragile, of democracy as the NFP won a plurality in the July elections, whereas Barnier's party polled at 6%, and everything that Barnier passed was at the bidding of, and with the connivance of the RN. The NFP had proposed a series of budget amendments that would have brought the deficit under the 3% of GDP as "required" in EU regs, and was fully costed, said measures having the fatal flaw of insisting that the wealthiest and international corporations pay up their share. All were blocked by the alliance of Macronist parties and the RN. Note that Marine LePen really wants the immunity of being President of the Republic and the immunity it confers from the EU charges likely to sink any political future should she be convicted, a likely outcome. In that, she shares that quality of being under scrutiny with the President of Korea, ThePresident of the US, and the Prime Minister of Israel. 1/

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  • @danneau@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca 2024-12-04 22:12

    @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca /2 Funds are on hand to run the country until the beginning of March without the intercession of the Assembly. If Macron chooses to ignore the results of July and appoint someone other than a rep from the NFP, then there will likely be another blockage. If the NFP gets the chance to govern, their program comes into effect and the citizenry gets to decide whether that programme is worthy of continuation. Should Macron resign, I believe that an election must be held within 30 days to choose a new president. I'm not sure whether the new president can then call new new legislative elections. Given that we have had at least five decades of neoliberal trickledown economics (Macron is a shining example) that have concentrated wealth in a small minority and beggared public services, it might be time to try something else. Macron is fighting like crazy to ensure that no one else gets a chance.

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