that's all us đ
thanks Stuart. you made my day by putting me on the list. and that - finally - explains why I got so many new followers in the past 2 days.
in the meantime, it is paramount that a new government is named and that he respects the vote of July 7. finally, this period has pointed - again - to the limits of the french institutional setup. institutional reform should be the next point on the agenda /end
Macron has been moving in a dangerous direction since 9 june when he called for new elections. since then he has made several decisions that clearly go against the spirit if not the text of the constitution. historians and law scholars will judge. 9/
but this lack of cooperative political culture does not and cannot justify disregarding electoral results and the strategic - to say the least - interpretation of France's constitution 8/
the more cooperative attitudes expected from politicians in the consensual political systems of northern Europe are clearly unknown in France. all actors from the left to the right should read some comparative politics textbooks and book their next vacation in Denmark 7
tonight, macron has finally responded, announcing that he will not name a prime minister from the left-wing alliance NFP that has come first on 7 July 6/
LFI's leader, the controversial Jean-Luc MĂ©lenchon, suggested last week that his party should not contribute any ministers to government by left-wing alliance NFP, putting a lot of pressure on Macron and other centrist politicians 5/
the general discourse surrounding these moves is that the elections of 7 July did not yield a clear winner. moreover, centrist politicians have regularly called the far-left LFI "antirepublican" to justify their disregard of electoral results 4/
this second unprecedented move led to a third one: the incumbent government of Gabriel Attal stepped down on 16 July without being replaced. it thus could not be voted out of office. the president has thus imposed 50 more days in government of the party that lost elections 3/