French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne resigns
www.aljazeera.com
The move paves the way for a cabinet reshuffle as President Emmanuel Macron aims to give his presidency new momentum.
  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    131·
    11 months ago

    Truly buck wild to have a President and a Prime Minister. Gee France, how come your mom lets you have two heads of state?

    Andorra also has two heads of state, who are Princes. One is the current bishop of Urgell and the other is whomever is the president of France.

    Gee Macron, how come your mom lets you be head of state of two countries?

    • Pili@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      11 months ago

      The prime minister is actually the head of the government in France, the only head of state is the president.

    • 01011
      1·
      11 months ago

      Ireland has the same system. Germany has a President and Chancellor (similar to a PM). The President is the head of state, similar to the position enjoyed by a monarch and the Prime Minister is the head of government. It’s quite common.

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
    11·
    11 months ago

    The French president’s advisers say he has managed to pass the most challenging parts of his economic manifesto in the first year and a half of his second mandate, despite the lack of an absolute majority, and that future reforms, on education and euthanasia for instance, would be more consensual.

    But Macron’s decision to use executive powers last year to pass a contested increase in the pension age to 64 triggered weeks of protests

    No retirement, please die.

    I long for the day France is just a distant memory and a cautionary tale on what not to become as a nation.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      11 months ago

      despite the lack of an absolute majority

      Sounds like they have an absolute majority of reactionaries.

  • Catyote@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    11 months ago

    Why’d she resign? I didn’t see anything in the article stating precisely why, except Marcon wanting to focus on new priorities. How does the French government operate?

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
      61·
      11 months ago

      How does the French government operate?

      They sit in a room and workshop the question, ‘How can we make the world a worse place?’ Then they do whatever they come up with, but half-heartedly, leaving the market’s free-hand to botch the implementation.