French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to appoint a new prime minister “in the coming days” following a no-confidence vote that brought down the government and plunged the nation into political uncertainty. Speaking in a televised address on Thursday night, Macron rejected mounting calls for his resignation and vowed to serve his full term until 2027.
At this point, who knows? The far right are holding out for their turn in power, and can afford to let macron burn himself out until then. Conversely, macron cannot afford to himself go any farther right nor left without becoming indistinguishable from the parties that already historically have occupied those positions and principles, parties that he campaigned twice against on being the “rational forward-thinking” candidate to their “partisan” bullshit.
The leftist circles I frequent are more worried that this will be the opportunity for the center-left liberal parties (namely the so-called Socialist Party) to jettison the actual left-leaning party from any coalition that ends up governing. Which would basically be setting us up to repeat the Hollande years, which gave us Macron right after.
Round and round the cycles go, where it stops nobody knows…