Posted on 04/17/2023 6:00:25 PM PDT by Nextrush
French President Emmanuel Macron made a brief speech at 8 pm tonight offering the people of France a host of issues beyond the pension reform issue he has alienated public opinion with.
Macron spoke the environment, he spoke law and order even talked about illegal immigration but with 64 percent of public opinion now supporting continuation of the protests begun to oppose his imposition of pension reform without a legislative vote it came as no surprise that protests organized on short notice sprung up across France this evening.
Thousands gathered in Paris clanging pots and pans...
This was the pattern in other cities as well. Police banned the pots and pans protest in some locales...
While the Left seeks to make the noise in the streets France's leading opposition politician Marine Le Pen of the National Rally taking a quieter but firm stand against the pension reform.
The woman who got more than 40 percent of the vote against Macron in the final round of last year's presidential election shows in recent polling as the victor over Macron 55 to 45 percent if an election were held today.
But the election is still four years away.
Marine Le Pen wrote of Macron as an "arsonist" of "democracy" on social media last weekend.
She said in a Sunday media interview that Macron has three options...
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Nothing spells pandemonium more than roving bands of beret clad mimes screaming in the streets
The three options are 1. A referendum on the pension age change, 2. Dissolving the national assembly and having a new election, or 3. Resigning and having a new presidential election.
Probably a 4th option.
Having mid level members of the military and National Police take control of the government(since all the senior folks in both are nothing but YesMen/Women, run Macron and his mother out of the country, new elections, and then conduct the largest deportation exercises in the world.
I’m betting that after all the 3rd world savages are tossed out of the country, saving said country all sorts of money by not paying them benefits-healthcare-etc, that there might not be a need for pension reform.
But that ain’t gonna happen.
I’m even embarrassed for the French. Those poor saps, so very weak.
Option 1 is a non-starter. That one would lose by a huge margin.
possible referendum:
option 1: pension change, no tax increase
option 2: no pension change, funding tax increase
“Dissolving the national assembly and having a new election”
The National Assembly was bypassed I believe.
Why should they have to face a new election?
The French have to deal with their Social Security shortfall equivalent.
Macron is right in recognizing the problem, but bypassing the legislature causes a problem of governing legitimacy for him and other French folks.
The French are protesting in their rues against their President.
Americans, keyboard kvetching only against Joe Puppet.
It seems they are protesting because of the gibs me dats. They want free stuff. I guess this will end in taxing “the rich”, until they all leave.
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