France plunges back into crisis after PM Bayrou’s confidence vote backfires • FRANCE 24 English

Unable to garner majority support for an austerity budget, Frana has called the parliament’s bluff, calling a confidence vote in his own government for the 8th of September. And as the left and far right gear up to topple him, his appeal was to the public. In the 13 days ahead, the French people will choose. They will influence their elected representatives to decide whether they position themselves on the side of chaos or on the side of conscience and responsibility. But opposition lawmakers have made their intentions clear. So short of a miracle, the government will fall and the president will be faced with a quandry. The last time a government was toppled in France last December, President Mu appointed a new prime minister from his own political camp to form a new government. But this will be France’s third premier since last year’s snap elections. And without a change in parliamentary arithmetic, another prime minister from the center right would likely face the same problems down the line. And in the past, President McCau has refused to choose a prime minister from the left. The president may then feel he has no choice but to call snap elections and hope for more favorable results. When there’s a very major conflict between the assembly and the executive, dissolution comes at a heavy cost for the country. But you can’t rule out this option. Even if the last time president tried this, his governing minority came back weakened. The radical left France unbowed meanwhile have filed a motion to depose the president. The chaos is Macron. He needs to be deposed. But no such motion has ever got off the starting blocks.

France found itself mired in yet another crisis on Tuesday, after Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s gamble to win backing for his deeply unpopular debt-reduction plan backfired, plunging the country deeper into political and financial instability. His proposal was roundly rejected by opposition parties, who said they would relish the opportunity to cut short his minority government’s time in office. Story by Antonia Kerrigan.
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16 comments

  3. France is ungovernable and perhaps always has been since the Revolution in 1789 except for a few years under De Gaulle.

  7. They'd need a non political technical government but the far right is too unresponsible for it and they will use this crisis to get more votes and the left won't approve such givernment because it'd have to follow policies they'd find too harsh

  12. In France, some special pension schemes (like SNCF or EDF) allowed people to retire as early as 50/55 with 70 to 75% of their last salary. In the private sector, it’s closer to 55%.
    In Germany, the legal retirement age is 67, with only 45 to 48% of the salary.
    On top of that, France has 84 public servants per 1,000 inhabitants, compared to 57 in Germany.
    The result: a massive social burden.
    No wonder some are counting on immigration to finance the system as there are fewer and fewer workers.
    And in the end, it’s the younger generations who will foot the bill… without even being sure they’ll ever get a pension.

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