{"id":495373,"date":"2025-10-13T05:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/495373\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T05:40:11","slug":"whats-really-wrong-with-french-politics-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/495373\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s really wrong with French politics \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecornu, who resigned as prime minister last Monday only to be re-appointed on Friday evening, recognized that the presidential ambitions of heavyweight politicians were interfering with the political stability of the country.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SebLecornu\/status\/1976740050022154629\" target=\"_blank\">he said<\/a>, his future ministers will have to \u201ccommit to disconnect from presidential ambitions for 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The German model<\/p>\n<p>This chaos, which has assumed a momentum of its own and shows no sign of abating, has some French politicians gazing wistfully at parliamentary systems where coalition deals are part of the political DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Standing next to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in August, Macron himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-france-mps-germany-friedrich-merz-war-in-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">implored lawmakers<\/a> in his own country\u2019s parliament to be a bit more like their German counterparts, who had just hammered out one of their ironclad Koalitionsvertrag \u2015 a coalition deal between the center right and center left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the other side of the Rhine, it appears that a conservative party and a socialist party are managing to work together,\u201d the French president said. \u201cThat happens not so far from us, and it works, so I think it\u2019s possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Italy, which has so often been a political basket case, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/rome-gloat-france-become-italy-giorgia-meloni-emmanuel-macron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now looks more solid than France<\/a>. That\u2019s in large part due to the experience of its parties in striking coalition agreements such as that under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, which has held up for nearly three years, according to Marc Lazar, a professor at Sciences Po university in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lecornu, who resigned as prime minister last Monday only to be re-appointed on Friday evening, recognized that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[6215,6659,33,34,2000,299,36,24402,38,1945,1824,2440,2199,33181,44,6647],"class_list":{"0":"post-495373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-cooperation","9":"tag-crisis","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-emmanuel-macron","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-french-political-crisis","16":"tag-french-politics","17":"tag-friedrich-merz","18":"tag-germany","19":"tag-giorgia-meloni","20":"tag-italy","21":"tag-jean-luc-melenchon","22":"tag-marine-le-pen","23":"tag-stability"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115365257066052684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}