Should have made this post weeks ago.
Anyway, maybe it’s Cazeneuve
or maybe not
finding someone who will be respected/accepted by the different Parties… isn’t easy…
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Finding someone that all the French Left agree with will be a miracle in itself.
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Wow… I hadn’t expected this.
He’s quite right-wing so it’ll be interesting to see how RN react to this news.
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Interesting…
Excellent news. A grownup at the helm. .
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Wasn’t he a chief negotiator on EU side for Brexit? That went well for the other side…
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Indeed. I think that’s why I’m feeling fairly upbeat about this appointment. I don’t necessarily agree with his politics, but right now the country needs someone capable of negotiating who’s running the show.
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I liked him during the brexit fiasco, he didn’t take any shit from fartyarge and co either!
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The understatement of the year!!! And whether the RN will work with him is another question.
Given LesRepublicans came fourth in the legislatives it’s not even something that one can justify as the will of the people…
I think the RN think he will be much more even handed than a socialist, a macronite or any pick of the part of the NFP.
I don’t agree with that Jane. He’s centre right and, let’s face it, the centre is where we all need to be, a tad left of right is neither here nor there. Remember he was around when, IMHO, Mitterand ruined France. While I would describe myself as centre left, I too don’t like the French version of socialism.
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Negotiation is necessary to form a viable working coalition and Barnier seems one of the few French politicians with much experience of that art.
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Macron has done a deal with the RN: if you don’t vote Barnier down, you’ll get your single round PR vote for NA through (best for RN on past performance). Macron’s nightmare was the Pension scrapping that both the PFN AND RN were dedicated to. A PFN PM and a budget RN would have agreed to would have been the end of Macron. No doubt the PFN and RN had been little chats and a minimum programme mooted. Le Pen gets the later ‘adult in the room’ kudos (and her supporters forget her betrayal over pensions). That’s politics folks!
OK I’ll bite.
What did Mitterand do?
We’re going back forty years Karen, not worth rehashing. But the France I knew when I first libed here in '81 disappeared on his watch.
There’s no denying that, and IMO not such a bad result.
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What I remember was a report that his wife had invited his mistress to come when he was on his deathbed. Now that’s class.
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As far as I can remember in the Eighties Mitterand’s policies were economically disastrous and the franc was devalued twice in one year. Later his Grand European Confederation ideal fell apart very quickly.
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They say he used to visit her on the back of a scooter. It may have been the inspiration for this ad for a French car.
