I sat last night and watched a German news piece on President Macron of France....having a 'huddle-meeting' with 600 French mayors. The aim here, was to show some kind of civil discourse....that he could sit and talk in a public forum with them.
I went back to YouTube this morning and watched the video of this meeting....with the sound turned off.
Macron is having serious trouble in convincing the French public that he can lead them. He wants a national dialog.
At some point, the journalists were even suggesting that he wants the public to identify what tax cuts they want, and then what benefits they want lessened. Basically....he would give them a couple of hundred Euro back in their, but the cut 'something' (maybe education, maybe street renovation....you just don't know what). For a brief moment, he'd probably win this public display. The real losers though? It'd go back to the mayors, and they'd have to sit there with public frustration over cut benefits.
Curious episode, I must admit.
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