French President Emmanuel Macron ruled out naming a prime minister from the leftist New Popular Front alliance and will instead start a new round of consultations on Tuesday with parties to try to form a new government, Macron's office said.
Most main figures or the center parties came out of the bush and admitted they wouldn’t work with a Left government, even after its most radical component (LFI) proposed not playing an active role in this hypothetical government
The problem is the “left government” has adopted the most radical component’s entire program (except on nuclear energy and some foreign topics).
If a different minister passes the same “we will tax all french abroad and raises marginal tax to 90%” law, doesn’t really changes anything to the bottom line.
Except the US tax rate is much lower. Paying the sky high French taxes while getting zero in public services in return (unlike actual French tax residents) is basically robbery.
The left also doesn’t want to work with his party. Both Mélenchon and Castes have made it clear it would be their program and only their program and that they would not ally with the presidential party which they blame for everything wrong.
I’d also not be looking to work closely with a center block that will water down your plans, take credit for all things good while you see your most important points being stonewalled. Both the right and left can just rail against this and next elections the polarization will just be bigger.
Sure but if you don’t have a majority and need to ally with someone else you have to water down your plans, there’s no other way around it. Neither sides want to partner, but the center is probably more comfortable having no real government and keeping the status quo for the next two years than the left is.
A problem of his own making. His “center” party could work together with the NFP, but just chose not to.
Most main figures or the center parties came out of the bush and admitted they wouldn’t work with a Left government, even after its most radical component (LFI) proposed not playing an active role in this hypothetical government
Looks like they want a minority government.
The problem is the “left government” has adopted the most radical component’s entire program (except on nuclear energy and some foreign topics).
If a different minister passes the same “we will tax all french abroad and raises marginal tax to 90%” law, doesn’t really changes anything to the bottom line.
https://www.taxesforexpats.com/expat-tax-advice/Citizenship-Based-Taxation-International-Comparison.html
So half of the most extreme radical leftist demand is basically “do what the USA does on taxation”.
Except the US tax rate is much lower. Paying the sky high French taxes while getting zero in public services in return (unlike actual French tax residents) is basically robbery.
Also just because the US does it means it’s good.
The left also doesn’t want to work with his party. Both Mélenchon and Castes have made it clear it would be their program and only their program and that they would not ally with the presidential party which they blame for everything wrong.
I’d also not be looking to work closely with a center block that will water down your plans, take credit for all things good while you see your most important points being stonewalled. Both the right and left can just rail against this and next elections the polarization will just be bigger.
Sure but if you don’t have a majority and need to ally with someone else you have to water down your plans, there’s no other way around it. Neither sides want to partner, but the center is probably more comfortable having no real government and keeping the status quo for the next two years than the left is.
Macron is not a centrist.
That’s because his party is not remotely center