Emmanuel Macron and his newly founded party have decimated the established parties and taken the French parliament by storm. After the reshuffle in his cabinet of ministers, there is a balance of 15 men and 15 women. Interesting world we live in and just as before writing the U.S. Constitution, France leading the way in the modern age of urbanization and the split between economics of the province and the financial heart of a nation. Where the U.S. is backtracking into global isolation under president Trump, the British keeping it’s archaic institutions without heart for its people (Tory MP Theresa May), the 27 countries of the EU stand united as the Brexit talks get under way in Brussels.
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Towards the 6th French Republic?
by Migeru Sat Jun 17th, 2017 at 07:38:55 AM PDT
The political realignment taking place in France is nothing short of extraordinary. Before Emmanuel Macron won the presidential election last month it was assumed that, lacking a party, he would not be able to beat the Republicans, or even the Socialists, at the legislative elections, and a cohabitation would ensue. But at the first round last week the vote share of Macron’s party La République En Marche was a historic high, with participation at a historic low. As a result, Macron’s party is expected to win a blowout victory at the second round tomorrow. His majority could be large enough to allow him to reform the Constitution without the support of the other political parties. We could be looking at the 6th French Republic.
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Emmanuel Macron’s purges in Paris | DW – Opinion |
“Démission de courtoisie” – the collective resignation of a government that customarily happens after a French parliamentary election – can be loosely translated as a “resignation out of courtesy.” The prime minister withdraws his government and sends them, sometimes with slight changes, back into the race – a formality to take into account new insights gleaned from the election. And so it goes this time as well. But what’s happening in France has nothing to do with courtesy. It’s about credibility.
Four ministers have left (or more precisely: been forced to leave) the cabinet, including all three from the “Mouvement Democrate” (MoDem) under the leadership of centrist Francois Bayrou, himself a political institution in France. Bayrou was hoping to stay on as justice minister and had already announced a new law for the “moral improvement of political life,” or, less pompously, an anti-corruption law. With his proposal he was towing the line of the young president, who has promised to clean up wasteful spending of taxpayers’ money and the use of high-powered positions in government for self-enrichment and nepotism.
Macron reshuffles Cabinet, boosts women to top posts | France24 |
Macron had planned to rearrange the government after his centrist party won a majority in parliamentary elections Sunday. He was forced to make more changes than expected because four ministers facing investigations announced this week they would step down.
Macron’s office announced Wednesday that Florence Parly, a former executive and budget official, would become the new defense minister after the previous defense chief, Sylvie Goulard, the highest ranking woman in the five-week-old government, stepped down.
Macron also named Nicole Belloubet, a member of the Constitutional Court, as justice minister after her predecessor, Francois Bayrou, was forced to quit earlier in the day. Bayrou, who was leading Macron’s crusade to purify politics, was forced to quit over corruption allegations.
