The young prime minister of France could not save Macron from problems
| At the beginning of this year, the president of France installed the young Gabriel Attal as the prime minister, who hoped that he could give a better atmosphere to the second term of his presidency with his help, but still after 100 days of his rule, Macron It faces many problems. |
According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, newspaper ” Germany’s Hamburger Abend Blatt wrote in an article: Gabriel Attal, as the new prime minister of France and an exciting youth, was supposed to speed up the second term of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency. But his 100-day prime ministership shows something else.
The author went on to discuss the problems of the Macron government during Attal’s prime ministership and wrote: Suddenly, billions of dollars from the French national budget is missing, French President Emmanuel Macron’s government is faltering and Marine Le Pen’s far-right populist party is leading alarmingly in opinion polls ahead of European elections. In this way, the liberation that Macron hoped for at the beginning of January with the appointment of the young and dynamic Gabriel Ettal (35) as prime minister has not yet been realized. While Macron advertises and presents himself to the international arena by pushing to send ground troops to Ukraine, he is increasingly in trouble at home.
Attal, of course, is He proved himself to be a successful crisis manager from the very beginning. He was able to control a wave of farmers’ protests that threatened France. As the tractors of angry farmers rolled into Paris in long lines, Ettal met with farmers to inform them of their plight and immediately announced government aid for the agricultural sector. Agricultural aid of up to 400 million euros, which was quickly promised, convinced the farmers to go back.
It continues: Atal is known to be able to discuss issues with representatives of other political camps, the hope was that he could restore momentum to the deadlock in the National Assembly. Macron’s faction has not had an absolute majority in the parliament for a year and a half, and many government projects are struggling to be implemented because compromise and coalition are less common in French politics than in Germany.
However, Atal’s appeals for opposition cooperation remained as unsuccessful as his predecessor Elizabeth Bourne’s long struggle for reliable alliances in Parliament. There is no longer any prospect of working with France’s Republican Party, which former conservative president Nicolas Sarkozy also backed. Eric Ciotti, the French politician who heads the Republican Party (LR) recently even threatened Atal with a vote of no confidence.
More : Since Atal took office, the lead of the right-wing National Community (RN) party in the polls for the European elections has increased even more. The initial hope was that Atal would be able to deal with the powerful RN leader, Jordan Bardella, more than the previous prime minister was able to. The extreme right party got 32%, the government camp 16% and the Socialist Alliance 13%. If this balance of power is confirmed in the elections in early June, it will have far-reaching consequences for the remainder of Macron’s presidency. It is sweating because there are huge budget holes that need to be filled. The assumptions underlying the budget were very bad. Last year’s budget deficit was larger than expected, and as recently revealed, things don’t look good for this year either.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Council of Public Finance , described the government’s plans to re-adhere to the EU’s three percent deficit limit from 2027 as invalid and inconsistent. What is needed in the current situation is a period of severe austerity with a reduction in public spending, and the French Court of Auditors has also warned about this. Unpopular short-term austerity, such as cutting unemployment benefits and reducing sick pay, works to deal with emergencies without raising taxes. But such measures could cause significant discontent in France, which is prone to mass strikes and does not bode well ahead of the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.
However. In order to review his work and chart a future path, Atal announced that he would give a speech at the Paris Verry-Châtillon Society on the 100th day of his presidency.
| © | Webangah News Hub has translated this news from the source of Tasnim News Agency |
