Il nuovo governo della Francia si sta dirigendo verso la crisi

New government ? It’s nearly the same as before. What a joke.

What policies have they enacted so far?

The only thing I have heard of has been more stuff for pensioners.

Something tells me we’re heading for double elections very very soon – one major reason and tactic would be to keep Le Pen out of parliament and the office of president for at least 5 years.

On top of that, this circus can’t keep going on. We need both a president and parliament which can be co-ordinated in a democratic way. These political gridlocks are ridiculous.

Adieu Macron, Adieu des parliamentarians, time to make way for either something new or back to the older ways but this middle ground stuff is swallowing up the 5th Republic like a greedy American kid in McDonalds.

It’s going to keep heading for crisis unless Macron calls another presidential election 

It’s possibly time to call another election. The last one made no sense but at least this would have some logic to it. 2 failed government in a year with the 3rd possible coming up soon.

The retirement age must be raised in France, as has happened in most other European countries. We can’t have a higher life expectancy and continue paying everything. The retirement age is based on people having a pension for three to five years; now we life to almost 15 years (sometimes even more) longer. That’s impossible; it’s not financially viable

>Retailleau had previously demanded a third of the ministerial posts for his party and is dissatisfied with the role and weight of the conservatives in the new government.

Retailleau’s party is a minority party, who went in a few years only from being the long time right wing government Gaullist party to being only 11% of the Assembly, with no discernable difference in their rhetoric of program with the far right party.

The members of thisparty that didn’t like the shift toward the far rigth left for Macron’s group a few years ago already, and are heavily featured in the current government, including the prime minister.

So we have a government that is made of mostly members or former members of a party that was very clearly disavowed by successive elections and Retailleau is still complaining his party didn’t get enough control over the government. And he can do that because his party is the only one the Macronist group is willing to do any sort of compromise with.

But that’s still not enough to secure a government that won’t fall. For that, they would have to also do compromises with the Far right or the center left. But the center left very clearly said that a government with Retailleau in it was synonymous with automatic no confidence, and Lecornu conceded them nothing so the negociations went nowhere. And the far right is trying to appear respectable so it’s likely they won’t want to be associated with this failure too much, although the signs in their direction (the Macronist group maneuvering to give the far right some key roles in the parliament) may make them wait a little before they vote this government out.