"After a mean girl spat, in which the leader of the ever-more-trending-hard-right Le Republicans, Retailleau, said he can't be in a government with that bitch Bruno Le Maire, Lecournu gave up on proposing a budget at all. He went for a good four day sulk. By the end of the week, he was summoned to an audience with Macron to work it out."
"Macron is not on speaking terms with either reality or France. He gave himself Friday to fix France's government. It was mostly silence all day, because there was no rational way of resolving this political crisis without making compromises and talking to all the parties. Then, in the evening, instead of deciding anything at all, Macron doubled down on the fantasy he's acting outright now."
Retailleau publicly rejected serving in a government alongside Bruno Le Maire, prompting Sébastien/Lecournu to abandon presenting a budget and withdraw for several days. Lecournu was summoned to meet with Macron but the meeting produced no substantive resolution. Macron declined to negotiate with rival factions and instead reappointed Lecornu, extending a ministerial stalemate and signaling an unwillingness to compromise. Speculation about appointing a prime minister from the center-left or moderate right went unrealized. Macron planned immediate travel to Egypt to engage with a Gaza ceasefire initiative in which France is not directly involved, despite the domestic crisis.
Read at emptywheel
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]