Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Concentrate on Dividend Record and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Freedom Force
  • Dick Young’s Safe America
  • Bank for International Settlements

Macron One of the Most Unpopular Presidents in French History

May 22, 2019 By Richard C. Young

President Donald J. Trump attends the Armistice Day Centennial Commemoration luncheon hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

At The American Conservative, Bill Wirtz explains the desperate strategy French president Emmanuel Macron is employing in European Parliamentary elections to beat his rival, Marine Le Pen, and to shut down to offer an alternative to right wing populism. Wirtz writes (abridged):

Macron’s La République En Marche (“the Republic on the move”) party presented its European election manifesto in Paris two weeks ago, then traveled to Berlin and other European capitals to rally French expat voters. It also promoted its ally parties from other countries, namely the German Free Democratic Party (FDP), the Spanish center-right Ciudadanos, the Dutch D66, the Hungarian Momentum, the Belgian liberal MR, the Austrian liberal NEOS, and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s VVD. Through this group—which is humbly called “Renaissance”—Macron is trying to win 100 seats in the European Parliament (out of 778). But getting there will be tough, because even the aforementioned parties that actively wield power haven’t won significant shares of the vote.

…

But Macron’s struggles ultimately start at home. His pick for lead candidate in the European elections, Nathalie Loiseau, is a diplomat and academic administrator. Utterly devoid of excitement, she used a recent speech to give voice to the standard “dangers” of Donald Trump’s politics and liken her political project to the spirit of Gutenberg and Picasso. The address was probably supposed to fit with the “Renaissance” theme. That a considerable part of the country was still putting on yellow traffic vests and screaming their lungs out against the government in Paris doesn’t seem to bother her. They’re probably all populists anyway.

Marine Le Pen doesn’t need to do much ahead of the elections. She leads Macron’s movement by half a point, which would have been considered unfathomable just a year ago. And the more Le Pen gathers steam, the more Macron will lose ground.

Not that we should have expected more from one of the most unpopular presidents in French history.

In his manifesto he writes: “Freedom, protection and progress. We need to build European renewal on these pillars. We cannot let nationalists without solutions exploit the people’s anger. We cannot sleepwalk through a diminished Europe.”

The parties currently represented by the Renaissance alliance include:

  • La République En Marche (Macron’s French party)
  • German Free Democratic Party (FDP)
  • Spanish center-right Ciudadanos
  • Dutch D66
  • Hungarian Momentum
  • Belgian liberal MR
  • Austrian liberal NEOS
  • Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s VVD
  • Belgium’s Open VLD
  • Mouvement Radical

His immediate goal is to win at least 100 seats across the alliance of parties in the European Parliament. He figures that with that many seats, he’ll be able to play kingmaker among the two major party coalitions in the EU parliament today. A few his main platform goals of his alliance are:

  • Force Schengen area countries to comply with strict border controls and to accept aslyees
  • Create a social shield for all workers guaranteeing the same pay in the same workplace, and a minimum European wage appropriate to each country and discussed collectively every year.
  • A world-oriented Europe needs to look towards Africa, with which we should enter into a covenant for the future, taking the same road and ambitiously and non-defensively supporting African development with such measures as investment, academic partnerships and education for girls.

Read more from Wirtz here.

Related Posts

  • French Far Right Grab Biggest Victory in History
  • French President Emmanuel Macron Has Now Cooked His Own Goose
  • Center-Left Emmanuel Macron to Win French Presidency
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Richard C. Young
Richard C. Young is the editor of Young's World Money Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Richardcyoung.com and Youngresearch.com.
Latest posts by Richard C. Young (see all)
  • Biden’s Anti-Job Executive Orders Could Alienate Labor Forever - March 8, 2021
  • Can Trump Overcome His Biggest Failures and Win in 2024? - March 8, 2021
  • MAP: Track the States With No Mask Mandates - March 5, 2021

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money
  • Tucker Explains: Put America First, Put its Families First
  • You Want the Limo, Not the Public Bus
  • Soros’s Open Society Foundation, Charles Koch Team Up
  • Gold/Silver Coins No Longer Allowed in Safe Deposit Boxes
  • Rich Grandchild, Poor Grandchild
  • Could this Be the Vanguard GNMA Winning Edge?
  • Democracy: The Most Dangerous and Insidious Effect of Majority Rule.
  • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Boom—Your Life Changes

Our Most Popular Posts

  • Do You Know About the Great Money Explosion?
  • What’s Responsible for the Global Decline in COVID Deaths?
  • Has Bill Gates Been Injected Yet?
  • Gov. Newsom Discovering the Power of the Pen
  • “God Bless America”
  • MAP: Track the States With No Mask Mandates
  • Is This Proof the COVID-19 Case Numbers are Fake?
  • Teaching A Family Investment: Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter and You
  • Here's What the Media Won't Tell You About Bill Gates
  • Richard C. Young: How About Joining Us in Key West

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Your Retirement Life: Meet A Modern Day Ski Warrior
  • How Bull Bashes End
  • Your Social Life During the Pandemic and MORE
  • Good Timing? Virgin Galactic Shares Tumble After Chairman Sells Shares
  • Do You Remember When You Purchased Your First Home?
  • Which Fossil Fuel Wins in a Shift to Renewables?
  • Richard Young Reports: The Great Money Explosion and Disasters
  • Fidelity’s 26 Million Retail Accounts in 2020, Up 17%
  • You’re Rich When You Invest Like Croesus
  • Joel Kotkin: Economic Civil War

Biden’s Anti-Job Executive Orders Could Alienate Labor Forever

Biden, a Job Killing Machine

Your Retirement Life: Meet A Modern Day Ski Warrior

Can Trump Overcome His Biggest Failures and Win in 2024?

Joe Biden Is Intentionally Creating a Crisis at the Border

Senile? Democrats Want to Repeal Biden’s War Powers

Copyright © 2021 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives