In picking Barnier, Macron has put his – and France’s – fate in Le Pen’s hands | Paul Taylor
www.theguardian.com
After months of dithering, the French president’s choice of prime minister leaves him more vulnerable than ever, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre

Barnier has been appointed after Macron repeatedly stalled on appointing a new prime minister.

He's a member of the Sarkozy Gaullist conservative party The Republicans that managed to muster a stunning result of under 7% of votes in the most recent elections.

I don't wanna say I told you so but I did comment "Wer hat uns verraten" about this situation a little while back and whaddaya know - Macron has just had his Paul von Hindenburg moment.

Shit's about to kick off. Let's hope that May 1968 was just the practice run for the French people and this time around they're gonna pull it off.

  • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    13 days ago

    You have done the liberal democracy thing

    Right wingers are trying to ignore the people

    You either give up or make them listen

    Let's see how based the French actually are vs what they claim... standing by...

    • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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      13 days ago

      The french still have imperial ambitions in africa and elsewhere. They're not based at all and macron is 100% who the french "people" deserve

      • Boredom [none/use name]
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        13 days ago

        France has always been the epicenter of bourgeois republicanism transforming into proto fascism to betray the left. It happened in 1848, it happened in 1870, it happened after ww2 etc