Cotta – François Hollande can breathe (some) – The Point

Like it or not, Francois Hollande scored two points this week. The first in the National Assembly, with the efficient help of Manuel Valls, where the text of the constitutional reform was adopted with the required three-fifths majority. After a long debate, confused, certainly, in an atmosphere cut with a knife, where invective flew for or against deprivation of nationality for the perpetrators of crimes or terrorist offenses. An almost surreal debate as it appeared above ground, far, so far from its purpose: the security of the French. A debate finally has deeply divided the right and the left, where you saw behind the scenes to oppose Nicolas Sarkozy Francois Fillon, Manuel Valls to slingers, with scars in the majority and the opposition, will fade easily. Every hour, throughout the parliamentary debate, the forecasts became more bleak for the president, who had put on the table this sacred forfeiture, and the Prime Minister who defended tooth and nail. And against all odds, a favorable verdict is out computer polls: 317 for, 111 Republicans, 199 against, 83 Socialists. A first step taken for the executive. Other remains, of course, but one thing at a time. So far, it won

Jean-Marc Ayrault comes home

The second point. The formation of a government more “plural” than expected. Or how to reunite for the last part of the way, families of the left which we thought they were permanently removed, environmentalists took to their heels in 2014, deprived of their radical leader. Two days after Cécile Duflot, on behalf of the Greens, had, certainly in forcing the line, compared the regime of Holland to that of Vichy, the general secretary of his movement rallied with two friends, the government. While Jean-Marc Ayrault was returning to the fold.

A magnitude upheaval? Not really, especially as many other heavyweights Socialists, Martine Aubry head, refused to make the final round of the five-year Holland. A change of line? Not at all. A political reshuffle? Certainly: even if François Hollande reiterated his possible second application was, as he always said, subject to the reversal of the unemployment curve, it is not by pure goodness of heart he recalled to him the Greens, but because their presence can probably avoid another ecologist candidacy in 2017.

the road is still long …

Two points marked, so, but, in fact, the hardest remains to be done. First, the security. Of course, who can say otherwise? But the fall in unemployment, growth, the onset of the economic success that the French are hoping as time Hollande is counted. Will there still, as he announced to instill them the necessary flexibility, revising the Labour Code? All governments, for a long time, see in the overhaul of labor law the solution of the immobility of the French social world, but eventually renounce months later, after demonstrating their impotence. Will he introduce the referendum in firms with stalled, union or employer, who at the beginning of five years, social dialogue was the alpha and omega of his policy? And what a regional referendum on the airport of Notre-Dame-des-Landes, expected before next fall, definitely fix a problem that plagues the left since the beginning of five years.

“the country is moving, but not as fast as I would like” this finding halftone is beautiful and good, but it does not give the president obvious solution to transform stillness in motion

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