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  • As far as I know, by tradition, Macron should have taken the NFP’s candidate as prime minister even though they only had a small majority. Then the assembly could have censored the government or not, basically triggering a new election if they did.
    Macron, knowing what we want better than everyone else, took a shortcut by making shoddy alliances with the traditional right and the far right to name Barnier.

    The only reason he refused to name Castet was because she wanted to reverse his retirement reform (which was also rejected by the far right, so it could have actually been removed). But the official communications were all about “nobody really won the election” or “it would be ungovernable”.

    Macron is a child throwing tantrums because what he wants is best and he knows better than us peasants, he sees himself as a benevolent dictator, as in, he is making the tough decisions because he knows he’s right. And in our constitution, the president has extensive powers that allow him to act in such a way if he wants to, with basically no checks and balances but honesty and tradition.

    And in all that, some members of his former government won seats at the assembly, and kept their positions as ministers too. So we had deputies-ministers, wrapping up the “urgent matters” and setting themselves up for their next jobs. They effectively wrote budgets that, they themselves will vote for in the next few weeks. That’s effectively breaking the separation of power




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    2 months ago

    Oh yeah, because not wanting 90% of my country’s media to belong to 10 people, or have proper taxation for richer folks, or good use of my tax euros for proper free health care and education for everyone make me a Stalinist.

    I’d absolutely rather have billionaire fueled propaganda against brown people and the poor, all the while they eat lobster and literally burn the planet to the ground. At least that’s not slightly leftist, right ?








  • He’s a big mouthed dude and he’s got some questionable positions, especially when it comes to China and Russia. I’m not a big fan of him and his persona but he’s also not completely wrong on a lot of subjects (moving away from the 5th republic, increasing taxation for the rich, welcoming refugees, funding of social services, etc).
    Some people love to paint him as a Stalin/Pol pot/Mao to be, and as the other side of the extreme coin.
    My biggest gripe with him is that LFI is his party and there’s not much democracy in it. A lot of people got excluded because they dared to speak up, which is not a great outlook when trying to defend yourself from being an authoritarian party.