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By David Broder
Mr. Broder, an expert in the European right, wrote from Paris.
François Bayrou, fourth French prime minister in a year, knew he had disorders to come. In his inaugural speech in December, he identified “all kinds of difficulties”: a mountain of debt, political conflicts and, alarming, “the outbreak of society itself. “
Until now, at least he has controlled to maintain a united government. Responsible for reducing a deficit lately more than 6% of the gross domestic product, Mr. Bayrou legalized a primary impediment last week. After many arguments, he received the fracture of the country fractically by a budget, surviving the vote without confidence that followed. The feeling of relief in the government camp is palpable.
But Mr. Bayrou is not wrong to communicate about the dangers. In France, discomfort is around it: in a recent survey, 87% of respondents agreed that the country is in decline. This story is told in the language of civilization risk and cultural war, amplified through recent conflicts in the territories of France abroad. Fanni through an increase in conservative media of Fox News Style, the trio of insecurity, immigration and Islam feeds an expanding call to protect a besieged French identity. Even the centrist M. Bayrou speaks of a feeling of “submersion. “
The discomfort is also imbued with economic problems of inflation to energy costs and a low investment in the weakening of the badge industries. But it has a more basic cause: the decline religion of citizens in the state. The very praised French social model, a product of the postwar decades that combined investments directed through the State, social protections and hard work rights, is a base. His slow capsizal threw France into a deep hole from which there is no simple excursion, and taking into account the excessive right of a primary opportunity.
It was a long -term process. While pandemic has caused an admiration construction for fitness professionals, surveys show that other maximum French people think that publishing, especially hospitals, looks bad. The establishments that say they have confidence in the maximum are small and medium -sized companies, the Army and the Police. With ruindo and infrastructure that suffer from an insufficient investment, to say nothing about political malfunction in Paris, it would be possible to see why.
The fault not only belongs to President Emmanuel Macron. For decades, the governments of the middle on the left and the medium to the right supervised a controlled fall in the French social model. Privatization and tension to be more successful have led to the deserts of the supply of the school and the hospital, even if politicians blame the lazy and without FIC for having crushed what they exist. There are strong calls to leave the week of 35 -hour paintings, and a fiction for many, especially in the personal sector.
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