Misleading title. From the article itself:
The president was reportedly responding to a proposal by far-right leader Jordan Bardella, who was suggesting France switch to a single seven-year presidential term.
French here, he was speaking about his own terms, his entourage is defending it as “Ahah dw it was a late night joke !”
And this guy is so corrupt that it could be true, or not, it’s a toss coin at this point.
One thing’s for sure, it’s not gonna happen anytime soon, the French deffo wouldn’t let him.
I guess even a broken clock is right twice a day ? That’s probably the only thing I can agree with
this far right fuckBardella. We should have a single term 7 years term to avoid what we have lived with Macron : not much on the first half of the first term, campaigning for the second term after that and now an absolute madness of authoritarianism, force pushed unpopular and unnecessary reforms and the further destruction of the very fabric of this country, because he’s got nothing to loose anymore. That or a new republic that would give less power to a single person, like a parliamentary system.I was about to say I don’t think it’s misleading but honestly on a re-read the article leaves a lot open for interpretation.
French President Emmanuel Macron slammed the two-term constitutional limit that means he must step down in 2027 as “damnable bullshit” in comments at a meeting with party leaders on Wednesday.
According to the far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Macron said it was “damnable bullshit that one could not be re-elected”
The president was reportedly responding to a proposal by far-right leader Jordan Bardella, who was suggesting France switch to a single seven-year presidential term.
Like if you look at all of these together the article implies he’s talking about his own term limits, some unknown source presumably allied with Macron claims it was in response to Bardella, and the quote from Mélenchon could refer to either.
I couldn’t find any other context in English beyond this. I would assume he’s talking about his own limits and the responding to Bardella bit is him and his allies trying to give him political cover, but it’s genuinely unclear.
Wtf happened to this guy? Wasn’t he reasonably moderate? Wasn’t he supposed to be the Biden/Trudeau of France? Can someone explain why he’s dancing this dance?
He was never a good guy, he’s a “centrist”/liberal.
Wasn’t he supposed to be the Biden/Trudeau of France? Can someone explain why he’s dancing this dance?
He is a liberal applying a liberal policy. Nothing moderate in “liberal” policies but good old right-wing policy with a drop of social varnish to get voters
Politico and its slams. They never disappoint. Although I wonder how someone can slam a text or an idea…
I can’t imagine some politician I didn’t like getting 3 terms. That would blow. That’s 15 years.
Meanwhile in Germany: https://i.imgur.com/WuA8KtC.png
I didn’t know that! Makes me think :) thanks
Long terms in office promote stability
*stagnancy, not stability
Which is, incidentally, exactly what happened both with Kohl and Merkel.
How did Germany stagnate between 2005 and 2021?
Is this question serious?
Lack of social reforms, lack of financial reforms, lack of infrastructure reforms, lack of energy reforms, the list goes on. All that was ever done was kicking the can down the road and here we are today.
Germany had a higher than average anual GDP growth (Europe), so yeah, the question was totally serious.
As serious as only caring about the economy can be, I suppose.
It’s not like countries with term limits fared better on average
Ok Putin
