Political Observer takes the measure of Macron, and his self-serving political opportunism

Aug 29, 2024

Editor: The Washington Post of August 28, 2024:

French President Emmanuel Macron said this week that politics played no part in Durov’s arrest. “France is deeply committed to freedom of expression and communication, to innovation, and to the spirit of entrepreneurship,” Macron said in a post on X. “It will remain so.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/28/telegram-durov-indicted/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert

Editor: Jeff Bezos is a CIA employee, sub-contractor.

Editor: Le monde August 27, 2024

Headline : French left denounces ‘denial’ of democracy after Macron refuses to appoint its candidate as PM

Sub-headline: The French president officially ruled out the left-wing coalition’s candidate in the name of ‘institutional stability’ and excluded the radical left from a further day of talks. The other parties in the alliance are refusing to take part in solidarity.

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Some left-wing elected officials are thus all the more upset with Attal’s more recent letter. On Monday, the outgoing PM criticized Mélenchon’s “pretense of openness,” paving the way for “support without participation” when the LFI leader asked whether a Castets government without any members of his party would be subject to a no-confidence vote. Attal believes that Mélenchon wants “the pure and simple implementation of his platform, without openness or compromise.” This statement doesn’t acknowledge the letter Castets sent him on August 12, when the senior civil servant reached out to other political groups, proposing a more collaborative working approach.

Built in haste for the legislative elections, the NFP edifice has so far held firm. But on August 27, it will be subjected to the tremors of Socialist dissension. The party’s two minority factions – led by Hélène Geoffroy, who is close to former Socialist president François Hollande, and the mayor of Rouen, Normandy, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol – have been calling for a national bureau meeting ever since LFI launched its impeachment plan. Under pressure, Faure has scheduled a meeting for Tuesday at noon during which the political response to Macron will be discussed. Some Socialists disagree with the refusal to go to the Elysée meeting, advocate building a coalition plan and want to distance the party from LFI. “We’re going to have to choose between the interests of the French and Mélenchon’s presidential obsession,” argued former Socialist MP Patrick Mennucci. It’s a new test for the alliance of the political left.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/08/27/french-left-denounces-denial-of-democracy-after-macron-refuses-to-appoint-its-candidate-as-pm_6722295_7.html

Editor: Le Monde of August 27, 2024 :

Headline: Why Macron refused to appoint left-wing alliance’s candidate as prime minister

Sub-headline: In a statement on Monday evening, the French president rejected the candidacy of Lucie Castets for prime minister, proposed by the left-wing Nouveau Front Populaire alliance, in the name of the necessary ‘institutional stability.’

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Although nothing has emerged from Macron’s meeting with right-wing Sénat President Gérard Larcher, which took place late Monday afternoon, the head of state seems to believe in the goodwill of his camp toward the next government – provided it is not an NFP government. On Friday, right-wing representatives told him that they would not oppose the budget if it did not include tax increases or a freeze on retirement pensions. They also indicated they wouldn’t oppose a prime minister from the left, as long as he or she has “a sense of the state and the general interest, and is familiar with the machinery of state,” explained the president of the LR group in the Sénat, Bruno Retailleau. As for Marine Le Pen, she informed Macron that she would vote against any NFP government, but the Elysée said that she would not vote against another government a priori.

But more than 40 days after the Attal government resigned, France is still without a prime minister. “My responsibility is to ensure that the country is neither blocked nor weakened. The governing political parties must not forget the exceptional circumstances of the election of their MPs in the second round of the legislative elections. This vote obliges them,” wrote the French president in the conclusion of the Elysée communiqué. Always quick to hold political leaders responsible for a situation he himself created by deciding to dissolve the Assemblée Nationale.

Editor: Their can be no doubt that Macron and his ‘Jupertarian Politics’, riffing on Mozart, & reeking of political inflation, and the rebirth of ‘French Mad Men’ ? Macron was American Made, a product off the assembly line of the Neo-Liberal Factory, with an impressive academic record, and Banking experience: Rothschild & Cie Banque in Paris.

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