PARIS, Oct 6 (Reuters) - France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French history and deepening the country’s political crisis.
The unexpected resignation came after allies and foes alike threatened to topple the new government, with Lecornu saying that meant he could not do his job. The announcement drove stocks and the euro sharply lower.
That is the good and the bad with French politics.
On the one hand, if the French government tries to f-ck up the people, those people put down the whole country in no time. Sometimes it looks like they have a general strike set up within five minutes.
On the other hand, when they actually need painful reforms (like the do now), it’s the same.
We do not need painful reforms. The only needed reforms would be painful for less than 1% of the population : the rich, the billionaires and millionaires not paying their fair amount of taxes.
Indeed. But as long as at least some parties protect them and their wallets as if they were the politicians’ lives, you won’t get anywhere.
That’s why we protest. They are put in bad position now. They’ll have to listen to us at some point.