the French political disaster scrutinized by the Western press | EUROtoday

By activating article 49.3 on the Social Security financing invoice (PLFSS), Monday December 2, the Prime Minister, Michel Barnier gave an accelerator to the political disaster which has been brewing for the reason that dissolution of the National meeting known as by the top of state, Emmanuel Macron, in June, underneath the watchful eye of the media from all over the world.

Between the successive concessions granted to the National Rally (RN) by the top of presidency and the specter of a France with out a finances in 2025, the worldwide press is already taking inventory of some ninety days of govt suspension and wonders concerning the political way forward for France if the federal government have been to be dismissed. A situation through which the British every day The Guardian remembers upfront the historic character: within the occasion of censorship, “this will be only the second time that a French government has been overthrown since 1958”.

Inevitable, censorship? First, there may be the person, Michel Barnier, of whom few worldwide observers imagine able to surviving the autumn that’s promised to him, regardless of the qualities they attribute to him. In the United Kingdom, The Times– who had positioned himself for the upkeep of the United Kingdom within the European Union – paints a portrait of the septuagenarian “former EU Brexit negotiator” And “appointed by Emmanuel Macron in the hope of ending the political impasse”. However, notes the oldest British every day, which has barely entered Matignon, Michel Barnier “was already the weakest prime minister in recent French history”.

The head of presidency attracts reward from the Argentinian every day Clarin, who sees in him “a conservative Republican, former foreign minister and talented diplomat” whereas The New York Times depicts him in “veteran center-right politician” . A “great Brexit negotiator, the one who mastered British diplomacy” however who “has so far failed to reach an agreement with the opposition parties in France”nevertheless, nuance the Spanish every day El País.

Paralysis of the French political state of affairs

Because there may be the paralysis of the French political state of affairs. The one whose first Italian every day Corriere della Sera units the genesis at 2022 with the absence of an absolute majority of the Macronist camp within the Assembly.

With 49.3, “President Macron [est devenu] increasingly weak and unpopular”earlier than dissolving the Chamber, barely the outcomes of the European elections have been introduced, finishing the tripartition of the political scene. “After fifty long days without a real government (…), Macron finally chose to try his luck with Michel Barnier”. This “old and esteemed Gaullist (…) did not have a majority, but he could count on (…) the benevolent abstention of another bloc, that of the nationalists of the National Rally”.

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