Posted on 09/05/2024 6:52:54 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Top Eurocrat Michel Barnier is the new French Prime Minister, appointed 60 days after President Macron’s snap election which threw French politics into disarray with a three-way-split Parliament.
Veteran French centrist-globalist politician Michel Barnier, who has held senior positions in the French government and European Union since 1993 is Emmanuel Macron’s pick to be the new Prime Minister, the role tasked with the day-to-day running of the state at the direction of the President. The role has been technically vacant 51 days since the previous Prime Minsiter Gabriel Attal resigned on July 16th, the longest interregnum since the Second World War.
While an experienced political operator and well known across Europe as the hard-nosed Brexit negotiator who — critics say — was charged with punishing Britain for having the temerity to withdraw from the European project, Barnier has an uphill struggle on his hands. The French Parliament is left without any majority or realistic hope of coalition-building to achieve one after President Macron’s gambit on a snap national election earlier this year left it split three ways between his globalist centrists, the hard left, and the populist right.
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Disagreeable guy, for left, center, and right agendas. More or less...nothing constructive for the next 12 months. Remotely possible that Macron wants another snap-election in 2025 (would be a crazy strategy).
I don’t understand the French political system at all.
Just thought you all should know.
:)
Election systems are the same all over: Maintain power for the incumbents.
The French don’t understand it either
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