Why is Macron So Unpopular?
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Following years of protests, riots, and strikes, Emmanuel Macron is very unpopular, with the current polling suggesting that he is one of the least popular leaders in Europe. But, does any of this even matter to a president who is leaving soon?
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00:00 - Introduction
01:03 - How Unpopular is Macron?
02:26 - Reasons for Unpopularity
06:14 - Personality and Public Perception
07:18 - Does It Matter?
08:09 - Sponsored Content
I admittedly don't follow French politics so closely, but it's somehow hard for me to even imagine any French politician to be popular...
It is true that we are very demanding. But this is no longer even a requirement. The Fifth Republic is coming to an end, it no longer corresponds to French society.
The economic problems keep coming, the democratic problems are the most important, the procedural defects and abuses of the constitution are innumerable, the referendum choices are not listened to when it does not suit the governments and finally the scandals and the corruption is total.
So yes, things are not going well in France.
@@tomboura8951 , that's because you have the wrong expectations when it comes to democracy.
There is no such thing as "solutions" in politics. Especially in a very politically, culturally and ethnically diverse country like France. There are only trade-offs.
Just because the People want something, it doesn't mean it is always possible. Problems in the developed world are very complex and always will be and no amount of Idealism is going to change this harsh fact.
@@inbb510 That's your opinion, saying "we can't do everything because there are global rules" is insipid speech in my opinion which consists of stunting citizenship to the meaning of a force more powerful than the general will. This anti-political vision which claims to be the reason for everything outside of everything is liberal, it generates a depoliticization of the social body and creates resentment which can lead to fascist solutions.
Well that's your business but it's certainly not my idea of politics. If I follow your reasoning, by the forces of the outside world. Should France never have plunged into an idealistic Revolution consisting of creating a democratic Republic before everyone else in 1789? Well yes because if I follow you, most of the countries in the world and particularly European countries were monarchies? Shouldn't we have been idealistic? In short, it's stupid.
We will see what happens in the future. Either France will choose a very dark path, or it will distinguish itself again by the total and complete revision of its institutions, perhaps becoming the leading power in the world in terms of democratic advancement, of course.
Well yeah, they're french
@@tomboura8951 Sounds like a good vision. Do you think there is anyone currently in French intellectual or public life who would be capable or qualified to formulate the arrangements for a new constitutional republic?
I think the first quote by Macron about France being a country of "regicidal monarchists" sums up the problem quite well -- and he's both right and wrong. He's right in that the French Fifth Republic indeed gives the President powers that quite ressemble those that Louis XVI had in France's short-lived parliamentary monarchy in the early stages of the French revolution. It famously didn't end up so well for Louis.
He's wrong though, in this conviction deeply held by the French elites that "the French want to elect a king". It's something that's repeated ad nauseam in the French political discourse. But most polls don't bear that out at all. A recent poll found that only 14% of the French liked the Fifth Republic, and that most want to give more powers to Parliament.
The problem with an all-powerful president is that if one _can_ govern on one's own, the temptation will be too strong. Pretty much all have fallen pray to it, resulting in a not-so-democratic conduct of affairs. And when one has all the powers, on has all responsibilities, and therefore takes all the blames.
95 pct of the french people do not know how the 5th republic compare to all others... neither do you probably.
Democracy has nothing to do with the amount of power the man in charge has but with the fact he is elected by the people... and can be booted at the next election...
By the way because the people have no clue about what should be done and how a country should be managed... in many countries the man in charge is elected by representatives of the people... who are better educated therefore wealthy and often do not have in mind the interest of the poorest and most unfortunate .
@@BStrapper So much smugness and so little knowledge... I do happen to know how the 5th compares to others. The 1st had a variety of systems, from the most parliamentary to the most presidential, so it would be too long to develop.
The 2nd was too presidential, which led to its demise as a Napoleon used that for his coup d'État.
The 3rd had a Presidential role originally modeled on the powers of the British kings, in the event of Henry V becoming king of France. It ended up becoming a parliamentary Republic after the crisis of 1877 between Mac Mahon and the Republicans. Supposedly an unstable parliamentary system, but still endured one World War.
The Fourth was notoriously unstable, mainly because both houses could vote a motion of no confidence in the government. But also because it disregarded the political improvements brought about in Germany around the same time of "rationalized parliamentarism", whereby the government can be voted out _only_ if another government is voted in to replace it (a so-called "constructive motion of no confidence"). This simple provision made it so a successful motion of no confidence only passed once in all of German history, and they didn't have to change their constitution since 1949. But when people want to defend the French 5th Republic, they pretend that such systems to stabilize a parliamentary system simply don't exist.
More importantly, the 4th was ultimately overthrown by political instability, the Algeria War, and a coup d'État.
The 5th pretends to be more stable, but in actuality its refusal to integrate dissensus into the organs of power creates a vacuum that's constantly filled by protests and social unrest.
Btw, you don't seem to know much about politics, as you confusedly argue in favour of a presidential system, sing the merits of parliamentary systems elsewhere (where indirect elections by "rich people who know better" supposedly work well), all the while having a pretty authoritarian, anti-democratic stance.
And you don't seem to have any clue about what democracy is. One person with all the powers is never a democracy, even if that person is elected democratically. No democracy anywhere works like that. Maybe educate yourself on political systems? One person with all the power has always been, by definition (see Aristotle's _Politeia_ ) a Monarchy (mon-archos, one ruler).
That makes sense
@@ArturoSubutexholy fuck dude you fucking killed him
There's people who would want a king
i don't think macron really cares about his approval right now, because it's his second and last term. Having won last the election, he doesn't have to put in any efforts to convince anyone anymore.
It is a problem for Macron because no other politician or party wants to collaborate with him, he is so hated that it would be a political suicide for them. That restricts Macron’s power a lot.
Not for himself, but I doubt those who disagree with Macron are going to vote for someone following the same ideology as him. In other words, I expect the French to become less progressive and more conservative.
@@Hardcore_Remixer it's entirely possible, the 2 last elections Macron won the 2nd round against the far right with Lepen. Last elections' 1st round was pretty much split equally between Marcon, Lepen's far right and Melenchon's left coalition. i wouldn't be surprised of something following the same trend next time. Being french myself, i hope the far right won't get the next victory.
can he continue in the foreign affairs? he is good at that
@@samkr2221 what? No he is not... In fact he virtues signals so hard to other countries that quite a few are telling him to mind his own buisness instead of trying to lecture them on how to rule their own countries.
Jacques Chirac was at 16% when he tried to adopt the “CPE” legislation
Hollande was at 13% when he finally understood that the French did not want him to do a second mandate.
Sarkozy is similar to Macron as both of them have their strong supporters but are also both deeply hated by a portion of our country.
Sarkozy was at 18% at some point. And Macron also reached 18% at some point based on only one survey made by one company.
So (even if it kills me to say this) but Macron is doing just fine especially considering he is doing his second mandate which is something neither Hollande (did not even try to run for Presidency again) and Sarkozy (rejected twice) managed to do.
We tend to be a lot more critical than our European neighbour. If Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss were our president, it would been interesting to see how low they could have reached in the polls.
France is also more politically divided into several camps
From a German viewpoint I would even say Macron is doing brilliantly. Scholz would love to swap with him.
President vs PM to think of@@Rechnerstrom
Which was what we wanted by the way
tahts because Macron was successfully propped up against an extremist candidate in the second turn of both elections; when that happens, the non-extremmist winning is basically guaranteed though that may end up changing
the fact that something like Article 49.3 exists in a country that is supposed to be a model democracy still baffles me
In reality, there is something very similar in Italy: our governments can implement laws bypassing both chambers, but a vote of no confidence is required thirty days later to transform the decree into law; if not, the gov is automatically disbanded.
It's not that simple, article 49.3 is not exactly something that allows the government to pass the law without a vote at all, as tl;dr unfortunately failed to precise. When triggered, article 49.3 actually allows all opposition parties to impose a "motion of censure". Basically if the absolute majority votes it the government is toppled and new legislative elections must take place. With Macron's party not having an absolute majority, if all opposition MPs had voted it this would have triggered new legislative elections. However, one party called "Les Républicains" (conservatives) did not vote for the motion because they feared elections at the time would be at their disadvantage.
So it is kind of low-handed because the MPs are not voting "should approve this law or not" but "should we topple the government or not", but saying it's completely undemocratic is also wrong because if opposition parties are so pissed they want to kick the government out well they can. It was just prevented by some opposition MPs private political interests. To sum up, 49.3 is convenient for a government but it's a two-edged blade because it puts it at risk of being toppled.
How is France a “model democracy” and democracy is not a real thing in any country
France is the model of democracy?
Isn't this their fifth try at making a republic?
@@badluck5647 You never get it right on the first try. As the US has proven.
Macron's response to a kid who called him Manu is a far cry from Jacques Chirac, who got outright insulted by a man (back when you could serve jail time for disrespecting the president), and just responded by "I'm Jacques Chirac, pleased to meet you"
6:05 The record for a president was 28 times in a 5 years term. Macron is currently at 20 times (so yeah, more than 13) and it’s been just a year and a half.
it was a 7 year term for the president at that time.
Le 21e 49.3 a été utilisé il y a une heure ;)
@@dimignite432 , comment la France peut progresser si n'y a pas de 49.3?
Il y aurait les perturbations tous les jours.
@@inbb510 c'est du 2nd degré ?
@@dimignite432 , non je suis sérieux, pas de plaisanteries.
All these clichés about us "eternally disgruntled French" (I am French) and I can't help but notice at 0:42 that the approval rating for the german guy is even lower :)
Germany is in a deep recession and France is not. Their hatred of nuclear power (in contrast to the French) and previous over reliance on Russian gas didn't help them.
It is not comparable. Support for the German government is indeed very low, it is very similar to France’s previous president François Hollande.
But with Emmanuel Macron it is another story, he has a core of unfaltering supporters (mostly affluent retired people) but the level of hate he triggers is truly unprecedented. He cannot spend 5 minutes in public without being booed and insulted, all his public appearances must now prepared weeks in advance with a tightly filtered audience.
@@michaelball93 and ironically the Greens are now endorsing coal power plants to offset the now-lost Russian gas.
Reality will always hit Idealism in the face eventually.
The brits love cliches about France et always get ecstatic when they are told France and the French are sinking faster than they are probably because like everyone they know it is the other way around....
@@BStrapper , what you mean no other country other than Britain and France are "sinking" 😂
French are famous for hating their politicians. Given the deeply unpopular policies he imposed, and that he is president of France, I would say 30% is extremely successful.
Yup 👍
I think it's fair to assume that him being attractive saved him
@@pikapi6993ah tbf most French presidents have been attractive even if some haven’t been necessarily that handsome
He is president mainly because he lacks any serious competition. The medias made damn sure only him and Lepen (far right) got any screen time at all, pretty much guaranteeing that these two would make it to the second turn of the elections. And then fearmongering of the extremes being in power did the rest (though it works less and less at every election that passes, extremists gaining ground because people are fed up with the only other option with a chance of success we are presented)
For his approval rating, again his tight grip on the medias explain it for the most part
Bruh de gaulle was above 70% if not 80%, and he resigned from presidency when his approval rate dipped below 60%. We hate our current presidents because they are greedy liars, and criminals (sarkozy who killed kadhafi after taking his money for his presidential campaign). Corruption is sky high and we are tired of that
A lot of french people are left wing economicslly, even the right wingers (plus he's not enough on the right to get their votes)
@Dances-st6id A lot of anglo-saxon peoples too... that's the splendid neo liberal anglo saxon concept of economy that is making collapse France. We don't have petro dollar to avoid/export inflation.
@@thomaslacornette1282 because France was doing so well before that....
yes so we should get deflation not inflation since demand will collapse with the demographic drop. You are talking from your arse. Current inflation is just due to extremely dumb political choices. @Dances-st6id
yep, Doriot's far-right PPF party in 1936 advocated a tax on corporate profits to feed a social fund, and today Marine le Pen's far-right is proposing retirement at 60 yo.
@@thomaslacornette1282 krembot, je t'ai reconnu !
Why is nobody talking about his wife, a woman who was his litterature teacher in high school and who "fall in love" with him when he was 15 ???¿¿¿
we talk about alot in France
the extreme-center became the extreme-bourgeois real quick
I'm not French, but to me he seems as a person who truly doesn't care about the public. He stands for nothing, believes in nothing and he accomplishes nothing except for empty rhetoric.
He doesn't care about the public, but does stand for something : himself.
@@axanarahyanda628himself and money !!!
@@axanarahyanda628he is the puppet of EU, banks and big companies.
he stands for big corporations. there are almost 200 billions a year that go to big corpo, that is more than the deficit, but he carries on cutting public spending and ruining public services.
If you want to see what he really wants, check out alstom. First he broke it when he was banker, than he sold it to general electric when he was finance minister and 5 years after he forces a public compqny to buy it back when he is president. in the mean thousands have lost their jobs, the industrial base has been liquidated, all patents have been striped to US companies and now he finds out it was a strategic asset and he buys it back for billions. Also, he probably pocketed huge money on a hidden offshore bank account at each stage all paid by his friends from the rotshield Bank where he was associate before going into politics.
He is litteraly sponsored by LVMH and Bernard Arnaud, the richest man on earth.Its easy to see how the top 0.1% are giving him support trough a heavy control of the medias and he give them Humongus tax cut when they are making billions each years but see almost no taxes on their Billion euro of Assets. Instead he rase the retirement age wich is rarely respecteted ( To retire at 64 it would mean that you work immedialty at 20 IF you wish to retire)
He managed to Piss off Both end of the Political spectrum.
He is not even a good president by Monetary standart since he started Selling France Public Buissnesses like AIr France and even tried to sell the Paris Airport.
”Arrogant, elite and out of touch.”
So, like the rest of Europe sees the French?
Pretty much
OMG If you didn't say it I would have!
I mean that's coherent since usually people base stereotypes on the government first
Spot on
So, like people who don't really know France see France? Yeah, that checks out.
He is hated,unpopular is a major understatement
It ain't just the French that dislike him either
Why is macron unpopular:
1) arrogant
2)out of touch
3)incapable of taking criticism
4)undemocratic(article 49.3)
5)incompetent
6)messiah complex(thinks he the king of the world)
7)hates the French working class.
And lying (women rights are the cause of his presidency, and he elected a rapist as the Interior Minister)
4) is wrong, he has the people mandate plus any 49.3 means the people's direct representative (député) can vote a 49.2 to get rid of the gov that is using a 49.3. I am pretty sure you knew that 😘 all is are usual rants of loosers, the same one if they get in power next time will explain you why 49.3 is fine if they habe to use it. Melachon 1er or Le Pen heir or any other 🎉🎉🎉 what a joke. Meanwhile, in UK most people are unelected : high chamber, head of gov and head of state who is enjoying his tax free benefits and free assets. Plus it is fine to get rid of the parliament when they do not agree with the PM. And you can ignore election results when they do not suits you, yes even multiple time. 🎉🎉🎉
And you re-elected him. Why?
@@vmoses1979still better than a fascist?
macron is the best president the french had since ww2
Oh gosh, his approval rate is even worse than Sunak’s... 💀
Emmanuel Macron is unpopular because he is a Centrist Oppurtunist drifting either left or right depending on the environment. Besides French People could elect Jesus but they would still protest the next day
Heeee's not very "drifting left". Haven't for the last ten years.
But he's totally playing the far right's game, and then posing himself as "the only sane man in the house" even if he's petty, incompetent, locked in his beliefs and close circle influence, a miserable human being, arrogant.
In France we don't have problems with someone bragging when they succeed. We find them cocky, but it's legit. Macron is bragging about his failures and solving problems he created himself.
@@Victor-el3ul During Elections he does
@@arpandas2243 Leaning "Left and Right" for the two months before a presidential election doesn't matters in a ten year presidential tenure where his only accomplishments was to make the far right a credible alternative.
He played the "Wall against identitarians politics" in 2022, but he's working more often with the party of Marine Le Pen than with the center or left wing of his own party.
His interior minister is whistleblowing day after day, his Justice Minister refused to resign, even when he was sent to a tribunal. His government launched, failed and started again three overhaul of the public education system in less than seven years. And the list keep going on and on.
He's a liar, an incompetent, he's afraid of everything and everyone, he want to be loved but not to do anything for the people. He's not keeping them safe, he's not keeping them hampy and he's not even keeping them in line.
@@Victor-el3ul I am pretty sure you would get the exact result if it was Macron Vs Melenchon. Macron didn't made far right more viable rather he made the populists (extremists) of both sides more viable
@@Victor-el3ul Hollande was true socialist and look how that worked out x Charlie hebdo , Christmas bombing....i he was right wing he would've deported all those 🐖
dont cry Francos. you voted this man president TWICE!! TWO TIMES!! you don't deserve to complain about him. now there is 15-20 years until you are a Muslim majority emirates, just kick back relax and enjoy the history unfold.
Enter Le Pen:
Pikkety and Cagé explored two hundred years of french elections in a monumental book. They found that Macron was elected with the most bourgeois vote of these two hundred years. The majority despises him because he his working against their interest.
He appears out of touch with reality because he his. He was groomed as a teenager by his teacher, now wife. He was groomed as a young adult by billionaires, specifically Bernard Arnault and Xavier Niel. His wife was tutoring the childs of the richest french billionaire and one of thye most polluter in the world.
The legislative election, tailored by De Gaulle and Debrée after the military coup of 1958 is still today preventing a fair representation of the people and assure an overepresentation of the majority, thus permitting to pass laws against the popular will.
His first move in 2017 was to cut taxes for millionaires and cut spendings for the common people, for dozens of billions of euros per year. This theft from the common toward the richest most polluting people is still in place today, siphoning hundreds of billions since 2017. Poverty is on the rise and at the same times billionaires more than doubled their wealth during Macron presidency.
He has done next to nothing envinronmentally speaking. He summoned a citizen conference in 2018 which came with 150 measures that were butchered by him and his then servile parliament. One measure made it to the international press: suppress intern flys if a train alternative is available. From the citizen proposition to the execution it was so belittled that actually no fly routes are suppressed as of today five years later.
👍
In other words, he is copying Putin
And he doesn't like France.
Pikkety is a brainwashed marxist. His interest is creating more poor people and keep them in this state so the hard left has electors. Piketty critized Macron's laws to decrease unenmployment rates that were very high in France for decades as in any other country. He succeeded. The unemplyement rate has fallen about 25%. And this happened in a very uncertain economical, financial and geopolitical environment for several years. Piketty's predictions have failed.
Correction: only one flight has been suppressed: Paris-Nantes.
6:31 LOL paris nanterre being an elite school in france 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Back in 2016-2017, candidate Macron was clear he wanted to reform basically everything. The left was in disarray after President Hollande's term and the right was destroyed after then candidate François Fillon was in a series of scandal. So all there was left was the far right and far left. Macron was elected, some said to counter the far right, but still people forgot his program. He was elected with the intention to reform things. The man is actually doing what he planned to.
He’s not far left he’s a neoliberal puppet
What I am most mad about is the perpetual denial of democracy with the excessive use of 49.3, the way he compares left-wing parties with far-right Rassemblement National in a way to make him the only "reasonable" choice for the French, his climate inactivity, his broken promise of "making far-right irrelevant" (he participated in many ways in their rise in France)...
Yes the man is doing what he planned to. Let's not forget that he told left voters who'd rather have Macron at the head of state than Le Pen that he was grateful for their trust and that they would not be betrayed. Which he did by colluding with far-right more and more.
Also, with the way he abused French institutions to bypass the parliament (49.3, 47.1, accelerated procedures etc), he created precedents for an authoritarian / illiberal regime to be held in France.
By not reforming shit? Lol, your grasp on the situation is flimsy at best. He's not following through on his promises he's pulling hard right.
@@poiremusclee9189 , there is such thing as too democratic.
Without 49.3, literally nothing will get done.
In a country like France where there are no majorities, you need measures like 49.3 or 47.1 if you want effective governance.
@@poiremusclee9189 C'est exactement ça... D'ailleurs à écouter la vidéo, on est à quatre ans de l'échéance présidentielle et Marine Le Pen aurait déjà gagné... Faisons mine d'oublier la gauche et ses 147 députés qui apparemment n'intéresse pas alors que le RN n'en a que 88, ce qui est déjà trop. D'autant que les médias mainstream font semblant de s'inquiéter alors que c'est eux qui en portent la responsabilité en ne montrant qu'une issue possible.
It’s a tradition of la France that the people tend to hate both the president and the prime minister. Considering the abysmal polling of Hollande, Macron somehow still manages to retain an approval rating of 28-32% among the public.
Then again, it’s hard to be a politician. In a toxic environment, one gets bashed and hated for everything he says.
PS: Somehow I’m left with an impression that even if the French people elect a saint or even Christ, I will still see protests…
the difference between Hollande and Macron is that Hollande was not hated, just generally disliked. Macron is more "popular" than Hollande, but those that don't like Macron really hate him.
@@nizla7322 If you want to talk about real “hate,” then the first president of your fifth republic certainly experienced that “hate” under a hail of bullets in August 1962.
Of course there would be protests if the Christ became president: that would be a pretty clear menace on laïcity,not to mention the separation of Church and State.
So french are supposed to like someone getting bad results for their country and betraying his promises or they're haters? 😅
That's because we're used to presidents sitting on their arses and doing fuckall because that's how you retain popularity in France. Ironically, a lot of people want change and someone that can make France shine abroad, and Macron started doing just that (He's extremely popular outside of France).
But French being French, the status quo is less scary than adapting to a world that's constantly in motion, and also we fucking hate someone who's successful.
We will be our own downfall and the next elections will prove me right.
I mean....hes not wrong. The french seem to want someone that can both solve all their problems without issue while also being the fall guy whenever something goes wrong. Who would want a job like that?
He's been voted in against the heiress of the far right fasciste party, so a large part of the country don't want him to start with. He's the most bourgeois backed up president ever.
The French President is very powerful
He’s definitely not wrong, and that’s why he’s unpopular. People don’t like being told they’re irrational, even if they know the are
As De Gaulle said, how can anyone govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese? (There's a thousand btw)@@SilentEire
@@SilentEire the worst blindness to abuse of power is thinking that the powerful acts "normal"
the people in the comments who have absolutely no idea what you are going through in France please shut up, our anger against him is more than legitimate
”Elect a King but be able to overthrow him whenever they want”
So- people want a stable goverment but if they see that the pm is doing a shit job then they Can replace them, i dont see anything wrong here Cuz this is What demokrati is or at least What it should be
👏👏👏
The problem is that the public only elect a president every five years, so for a term of five years the president can act completely unaccountable to the public. In a healthy democracy the leader is still always beholden to the senate/parliament because otherwise the people who voted for the opposite would have absolutely no representation and the president would be held completely unaccountable to anyone.
@@RealUlrichLeland 🤔
So if we remove the term limit then the president and all mp would be held accountble to the public vote, in other words;
We keep You till we dont like the way Youre heading the country and let this party take over till we say that they’ve doing a shit job
Yes i know this runs the big risk of a party getting rid of the opposition and turn into a dictatorship. But this could be avoided by strong laws and humble Politicians.
Im aware thats a lot Ask for by today’s Politicians but this should be the standard To som for. People getting into politics cuz they care and better There country, not to rule over others.
Politicians are ment to surve the people
In external matters, Macron seems like an arrogant rich kid without any actual power.
Same in intern but with a lot of power.
Actual power in rest of the world : no, in France, yes.
This guy and his majority are a bag of scandals, bag of state scandals, bag of insults (said that 10% of it's population were not citizens), bag of pride, bag of contempt, bag of lack of skills, bag of bad nation's everyday management : this guy has worst economic results in 2022 since Pétain and Laval (France occupied by Germany), bag of nation treachery : sold to USA a business producing our fucking nuclear submarines turbines and bought it back twice the sell amount after technology transfer was completed.
And he switch from times to times between fascism and creating phone numbers for every problems while reducing or misorienting budgets of concerned public service.
Because he's not representing the interests of the French
He's destroying the regulatory framework and the social services and the safety nets of the state to facilitate increased profit margins for the capitalist feudal lords, then the he seeks excuses whilst his opposition (that also serves the very same economic elite) seeks scapegoats.
Simply put, the french have realized that neoliberal capitalism is a return to monarchy and they're making it clear they won't stand for that.
Imagine still supporting socialist policies in this damn age 😂
@@AFT_05G Welfare state is not socialism. !.
6:57 He also said "A train station is a place where you can find people that have succeeded and people that are nothing "
As a french, let me tell you that the 5th republic is a flawed democracy, president with too much power, parliement with not enough power.
He used 22 times (yes, 22, you read well) a special article of the consitution named 49.3 to force laws to pass without parliement approval and cut out discussions.
He is not looking for compromises, but rather imposes things despite the image he shows in the french mainstream medias where he is depicted as a young, dynamic, and trustful president while in reality he comes straight from business world and made millions when working at Nestle and is rather shadowy about this and what he declared to french fisc about that. He also sold Alstom to General Electrics (american enterprise) when he was minister of economy while it's a stragetic enterprise to France as it builds trains and nuclear turbines.
Now french can't even build nuclear reactors for their energy autonomy without uncle sam benediction !
If Macron isn't a traitor, i don't know what he is.
No matter their political views, most french would agree that Chirac was our last true statesman, someone with enough honor and gravitas to make him fit for the role.
After that we had a scheming narcissistic arsehole (Sarkozy), a balloon full of air, farts, and broken promises (Hollande), and then Macron, which is seriously just all of that combined.
Oh, and he think he's a major statesman aswell. He is the proverbial insult added to injury.
Ca me casse bien le cul de l'admettre mais c'est vrai.
C'est simplement l'effet du temps. On verra dans 20 ans comment les gens jugeront Macron (je ne serais pas étonné, vu son âge, qu'il fasse un comeback triomphant après le RN)
@@xXDarkWaylanderXx il ira probablement juste vendre des secrets français dans le comité d'administration d'une société étrangère en invoquant la libre entreprise (comme Fillon).
Il ne faut pas sous-estimer à quel point le mouvement des gilets jaunes a pu être puissant et faire trembler le pouvoir dans ses bases.
Si d'aventure se présentait en France un climat favorable au retour de Macron, le pays serait (sans abus de langage) dans un état révolutionnaire.
My two cents évidemment.
Macron is the Trudeau of France. 🐼💰
Thanks for another wonderfully orated video Jack. One suggestion please perhaps a country flag next to the Eutopean Leaders so we can know who they are and what countries are disappointed with their leaders when you all showed the chart of the low approval European leaders thanks.
Oh boy, imagine going down in history as the guy who opened the door for Marie La Pen.
I don't know who Marie La Pen is. It's funny however, because her name really sounds like a politician called Marine Le Pen, but she clearly has a different first name and family name, so it's probably just a coincidence.
@@MichaelDavis-mk4meThats marine Le Pen. The guy just didn't know how to write it down.
You have already mentioned article 49.3 at least two times in tldr videos but never told what it actually is. It would be great to see it covered in one of new tldr videos
As a French myself, would you like an explanation ? That would be a little long but i know that it's maybe a bit shady for outsiders
Basicaly the 49.3 is the prime minister saying " this law will go though the parlement, if you dont agree you can vote for my exclusion " and so of the opposition are more than 50% of all deputee to vote for exclusion , the law is not approuved and the prime minister must quit . Problem is this situation lead to a dismiss of all the parlement and provoc a new élections for it , a part of the parlement who helped Macron always vote against the exclusion because they think that ,in a case of new election , they might have less of their people in the parlement than they actually have .
Yes, but one of the raison that the exclusion pratically never work it's because the parties who sign the motion of censure msut agree on some point in case it passes and the government must be renewed. Beside Macron's party, they are two big parties : the NUPES (alliance of former left parties led by a former far left Jean Lucques Mélanchon) and the Rassemblement National (former far right who also united the right parties after their implosion this past decade, led by Marine Lepen), and due to their opposition on basically all subject, they can't make concession for the other without betraying their electoral basis. There have been a glimp of hope during the pension reform when a small party post an open-to-all motion vague enough so the NUPES and RN members can join it, but it narrowly failed ( they need 287 votes but they get 278, and you can't abstain on this vote).
@@peperminth7236 The president's party and allies vote against the censure, that's a given. But that group doesn't have the majority, so if all OPPONENTS of the president vote for the censure, then the prime minister quits. New elections aren't mandatory.
BTW this has never happened, no opposition ever had the guts to go for it.
Sometimes, but this is rare, the 49.3 is used even when the president has a majority, when he wants to pass an unpopular law. It's a way to force his majority's hands. Again, it has never led to the government being censured, so far.
@@aesma2522 new election aren't mandatory but almost cause put a new prime minister still dont give the majority so he/she will be forced to use 49.3 again then being censored and again and again .
Even is that never happened , This year we had a motion of censure which almost passed by 11 votes. And this week, a motion to reject a law was passed, which has not happened in 25 years. Everything is possible
Scholz is that bad in the polls 😂😂😂
Good economy equals approval, bad economy equals disapprovals
Exactly, it has nothing to do with the president himself actually, maybe even more to do with the previous one as decisions tend to take years to have effects.
Milions of euros were sent by France to Ukraine, the retirement age was raised, but these are small in comparison to the illegal immigrants and refugee crisis.
@@Hardcore_Remixer There is absolutly no illegal immigrand nor refugee crisis.
it's only on the extremist mind but nothing in reality about those topics. [just look at number and about the reality. Speaking everyday of something will make it bigger in your mind but the reality could be diffrent, that's called propaganda. Like the insecurity topic, ppl believe the country is dangerous when it has never been safer in the whole history of the country....Sad]
There is a 3rd generation immigrant problem, but all of them are french. And not acknowledging this will not help the country.
it's easy to lie and appel to the worst of everyone, but when the lies will be unveil, what will you do? Keep on the same way and treat those french like foreigner? Like it happen 80ish years ago?
I remember watching Rugby World Cup and everyone was audibly booing 😅
The "Regicidal Monarchists" quote is exactly why we hate him. We want a president, he thinks he is a king and can't understand why he's hated
he lacks self awareness so bad it's basically human nature to dislike him
Maybe you need to understand analogies.
s@@questionmaker5666 No, he understands analogys, problem is that this analogy is very wrong not even 30% of french people like the 5th republic, most people want presidents powers in hands of Parlament and abolishment of the article.
That analogy is not only untrue but is only used by the rich and powerful, and considering current economic conditions its insulting
It's obviously a reference to modern French history.
He is a human being. He needs to cope with the fact that people dislike him, even tho he is probably trying his best. And he is probably bitter towards french for being disliked, hence the bitter quote.
And it isn't completely delusional. Ofc, you don't want "king" he just wants to make a historical paraler. You do want "powerful" ruler who provides stability. That's why you moved away from fourth republic. But at the same time, you never end up liking him.
Dismantles social security - people’s life gets worse - people are angry with Macron - surprised pikachu face.
6th republic time! 6th republic time!
Oui ! And we absolutely need to replace all this corrupt and useless politicians by an AI ! Like in a true democracy described by j.j. Rousseau !
Sixth Republic implies there's going to be another monarchy (or equivalent) first.
One word: arrogance. Macron oozes arrogance. For French people, who can also be arrogant at times, to be sick and tired of his arrogance tells you everything.
I'm curious as to how you know that? Are you French? Have you listened to his speeches?
@idoshulman6379 half-french, most of my family lives in France, lived in Paris and Northern France for a while. Also, I grew up in a very politicized family, and watched speeches from most French politicians.
sounds like the socialist democrats and Trump, so is that what France wants? is a right wing Biden? all i say is pick wisely, somato, dont pick a clone of someone else
I don't find him particularly arrogant. Not more than the average french person. What many french people don't like is he is able to tell them what he thinks. For instance to cross the street to find a job. A majority of french people are lazy marxists, they don't like a president that tells them the truth.
Hopefully the French have learned that you can’t elect a banker and expect a break from the status quo
Hopefully they don't have to learn the hard way about electing authoritarian fascists. Because LePen will be the end of French democracy
Trudat.
Fact is, every french president since Sarkozy is mostly elected thanks to a PR twist that set him appart from his (unpopular) predecessor.
Chirac was deemed lazy ? Sarkozy was a narcissist on Adderall.
Sarkozy was deemed too transgressive ? Hollande played the gravitas/back to normal card.
Hollande turned out to be a fake ? Macron was "the new guy", untainted by the legacy of major political groups.
Macron turns out to be (as you say) a banker after all ? Well france has run out of PR twist this time, our future is probably far right.. Yurk.
Here is a more accurate title: Why hating their president is the french national pass time?
The French hate everyone - even themselves. Tacitus: "These Gauls could conquer the world if they would stop fighting with each other."
The Empire is the only french salvation.
6:05 it's more then 13 times, currently we are at 22 when the video released it was probably 20 times. Reminder that the prime minister that used it the most during the entire fifth republic was Baladur with 28 uses of article 49.3. Elizabeth Borne is closing the gap incredibly fast on this record not even two years into her prime minister role...
I'm french and I don't hate Macron. I very much support him. If the people in my country didn't hate him as strongly and for reasons that most often make no sense to me, maybe I would have doubted his actions more, as there might be some legitimate criticism to be made.
However, when I see which kind of people oppose him, it almost "radicalizes" me in my belief and support for him, if you wish.
I really wish we don't end up with the other populist that runs for the office every other five years. When Macron has to make compromises I sometimes disapprove of at the national assembly, he's a "big mean dictator" to some, although he's the only one to represent people from different political tendencies while their candidates represent... well, exclusively their own. Meanwhile, the same people don't see anything wrong about Le Pen and Mélenchon running for the office everytime, losing everytime, and reattempting ever and ever again. How can they claim that these people are democrats? I know their arguments already, but it feels like we are living in opposite worlds that don't communicate (at least respectfully) in the real world.
La France est dans un état catastrophique, après 40 ans de déclin. Malgré quelques mois qui vont dans le bon sens, Macron est président depuis 7 ans, et la France ne s’est clairement pas améliorée depuis 7 ans (À part le chômage qui a baissé c tout). Le pays est dans un mauvais état…et vous comme certains français, vous continuez à jouer l’autruche face à la réalité de la situation du pays !!!
Comment peux tu l'apprécier avec ce qu'il fait? Il détruit la Frnace pour ses propres intérêts ?
PS: C'est une question sérieuse, j'aimerais savoir comment / pourquoi
I'm Spanish and Macron is probably the best politician I know of. If only we had someone like him here.
The Citizens collapsed
Even macron looks good when you have Sánchez running your country
Ustedes ya tienen un Macron en casa.
3:04 what is top security age. I have never heard that term
To be fair, the French don't like themselves either.
The end about how he may be remembered as the guy who preceded Marine Le Pen, as a French citizen, gives me chills. But it is probable, Macron's Third Way centrism leads him to pivot to the right and far right on social issues such as immigration, protests and visas (his interior minister best exemplifies this).
Instead of staving off the far right, he is pivoting the overtone window towards the right and normalizing their radical policies.
mais c'est totalement ça, ça m'enrage putain ! Sans déconner, on est quatre ans avant la future échéance de 2027 et les médias étrangers et médias mainstream voit déjà Marine Le Pen au pouvoir ! C'est insupportable ! Comme si il fallait nous préparer mentalement à ce que ça arrive alors que les médias ont leurs propres responsabilités dans cette affaires et ils le savent très bien.
Il y a trois blocs politiques qu'on le veuille ou non, la gauche et ses 147 députés, le centre droit gouvernemental et ses 250 députés et le RN qui n'as que 88 députés. Mais c'est elle qu'on devrait mettre en avant ?! Qu'on veuille dire qu'elle est une candidate potentiel, pourquoi pas. Qu'on fasse mine d'oublier la progression de la gauche et notamment le groupe LFI, qu'on aime ou qu'on aime pas, m'enrage à un point pas possible...
Don't hold you breath ey 😂🤣😂 each time the presidential election is said to be done years before, and each time, something happens... I hear that the heir like cats, they might have more time to enjoy her than what she expects, remember of Brutus' legacy 😁
Yeah because that's what the people want
80% of French people want stricter immigration policies
No, the French do not want a stricter immigration policy. Moreover, another survey took place, and it said that 75% of French people say they are very poorly informed about migration issues.
There is too much manipulation and propaganda on television which imposes the subjects they want to impose on French society.
Moreover, when we ask the French what their priorities would be in terms of national policy, immigration far behind the questions of wages, unemployment, job security, quality of public services and so on.@@kei6121
@@kei6121It's funny that you use that stat but not the other issues that the French deem more important according to surveys. Wouldn't fit your wonderfuly constructed narrative, would it?
WOW….why all over the “west” are we dealing with these types of leaders? Every single country on multiple continents!!
@@Besthinktwice it's because people want to hear easy answers to very complex problems.
And then when those easy sounding "solutions" inevitably fall apart due to the problem being more complex then people want to make it out to be, instead of reflecting on it people just double down and vote for more radical parties. And the deadly cycle starts all over again.
Arguably, Macron is someone to admire in that respect. He could have gone with the flow and just paid lip service to his electorate telling them what they want to hear. But instead of doing the popular thing, he did the right thing which is what all politicians should do.
Politicians aren't one's parents or celebrities. They aren't meant to be popular if their goal is to serve the people.
@@inbb510 over in Canada our tyrant isn’t even doing the popular thing.
@@joanndeck4315 , a politician's job is to do what they think is right.
It isn't their job to be popular.
A politician is not your parent or celebrity.
Because the alternative leaders are usually fascists (or, worse, left-authoritarians).
And that's by design. While I don't have evidence for Macron specifically, in the US, we had Hillary Clinton campaign documents that all begged for Trump to win the GOP primary so she could have an easy victory (which turned out to be a defeat, because everyone was screaming into an echo chamber called Twitter). France uses runoff elections, and it's expected that everyone who isn't a fascist will fall in line with Macron during the runoff, which isn't too different to what happens with American primaries and the final FPTP election.
The majority non-fascist parties in both countries thus have a monopoly over the set of voters who want democracy. This is an opportunity for extremely bourgeois people - usually well-connected party insiders - to nominate themselves for relatively easy wins. They then continue to maintain a status quo that is not working out for the people who are voting for them, up until they either burn out and stop voting, or get "red pilled" and start voting for the fascists.
(If you're triggered by the word 'solidarity', mentally replace all references to fascism to the far-left equivalent authoritarianism. Both left and right are slowly brain rotting away their democratic norms, it's just happened a lot faster on the right.)
@@inbb510As another Canadian, I should probably add context:
Yeah, Justin’s toast. No doubt about that, but I frankly don’t blame him for the cost of living problem when literally everywhere on the planet has the same problem.
Can’t stand the leading candidate to replace him either, because genuinely his policies are dreadful.
i'm french and it's PERFECT you say everything we can say and you don't make any error
I did not know that clip with Macron and the Teenage. It is hillarious.
First, being a good president and being popular are 2 different things. Most people don't know how a country, an economy and many other things work (I'm counting myself in it), so many vote for things they don't really know the cost of. For example raising the retirement can be a good decision (not saying it is I don't know) but it will never be popular anywhere. Sometimes you need presidents that make hard decisions for the better long term and they will not be remembered as popular, but they might be celebrated decades later if they're lucky.
If we consider France in particular, I think no president can never really be popular, however Macron managed to really become very unpopular, imo even more than Hollande, some people really hate him, and he really made the far right very strong. I'm pretty sure that he opened wide the gates for Marine Le Pen for the next elections unfortunately.
We say YES to Marine Le Pen ❤❤❤
Good luck with that ! @@ErickHumboldt
I agree. A good president is doomed to be unpopular one. This is why the system is failing and society is getting caught in a downward spiral. A good president need to implement decisions from time to time which are unpopular, or even punishing to a large number of people. But from strategical and leadership point of view are great. But in a system where popularity is the golden standard of leadership, rather than meritocracy, this kind of leader will never persist or be elected.
@@Member_zero Exactly, that's why I'm starting to beleive less in democracy as it is but still can't see a better system that avoids ending in an authocracy...
@@zaydalaoui9397 Well I think of it this way:
Not all forms of democracy are bad. Not all are good. Not all forms of Autocracy were historically bad. Some were considered good. In modern times it has a negative connotation. But personally I don't really care.
What I care is that whatever government is in place maintains the rule of law and pursues justice and equal treatment under the system. And also makes decisions which are in benefit of the country which I belong or society and which are based on scientific data, and evidence, not speculation, superstition or blind belief. And to be frank, most EU governments are quite decent in all of this points. What people are arguing are the details.
How long some president is in power, be it 2 years, 10 years or 50 years ,matters not to me. In fact when governments are replaced at too fast of a pace, it brings instability, inability to make and commit to long term strategies and decisions, and makes future less predictable. So points could be made in favor of longer term governments.
As long as government is good, it can last forever, for all I care. But even a day in charge is too much for a bad government.
I'm French. I don't hate Macron like most people but I don't approve of him. His foreign policy is catastrophic. His domestic policy is unintelligent. Reform is necessary, on pensions, immigration, education and many other fields. I like that he is willing to reform but what he does is not adequate and all done in a very clumsy way.
What did you think of his Covid policy esp vaccine passports and what he said about the uv
How do you reform France in an "un-clumsy" way other than just uphold the status quo?
Isn't that the crux of the problem with French politics. There is no way to reform France without being clumsy. Any minute change that inconveniences the French and they throw violent temper tantrums and start smashing shop windows... sorry I meant strikes...
30 % approval rating for a president that has been several years in office is a LOT in France. It's not rare for it to go below 20, and the lowest we've seen in the last decade is 4% approval rating. Let's just say that you shouldn't be comparing to other countries, but to previous French presidents if you want to accurately judge how unpopular he really is. French citizens are always very quick to disapprove elected peoples in office.
He sounds like the European Trudeau lmao
The next video should be “why is Justin Trudeau so unpopular?”
Or many other leaders
I don't like him a lot either, mostly because of his awful communication. But honestly, he is way over hated, it mostly has to do with the fact that Trudeau has been there for too long and him being a complete goofball whenever a crisis comes up, he hasn't done much in terms of policies. Much like Stephen Harper, people feel like it's time for change after so long, we can't stand seeing the same guy for so long.
As a Yank, I feel many people are just tired of seeing his face.@@MichaelDavis-mk4me
how do you expect a man Macron who said that French culture did not exist to be popular
Finally, a president who tells it like it is!
the constitution article you were talking about, the 49.3, was used 23 times for the pension reform (which theoretically pushes the retirement age to 64, but in facts most poeple will have to work until 70 even if they work a physically dangerous job), and budget laws as well (minimalizing public spending notably in healthcare, education or general infrastructure while making financial gifts to the top richest people and corporations). It is important to remember that this article is highly undemocratical, and that its current use has been sabotaging our democracy since he was reelected on fake promises. When even the national assembly and its representatives can’t work anymore, people obviously went onto the streets and protest. No surprise there, these protest, intentionally peaceful, were extremely severely reprimanded by the police, under the decision of macron’s home secretary Gerald Darmamin, his favourite for many reasons. People on the streets, who just demanded social consideration and the respect of our democracy, got beat up, surrounded by the police and pushed back into tiny streets were they can suffocate in the gas used by the police or be the target of their other weapons (many war-classed weapons are allowed for the police to use in france, contrary to anywhere else in the western world. People have lost eyes, hands, feet while others have died. This is why people hate macron, and most French people live terrified nowadays, and this all starts with macron.
The illusion of the complexity of decision-making, thanks to internal bureaucracy and laziness to understand the consequences of one's inaction.
"Why is Macron so unpopular in France" oh wow, a ten minutes video only? As a French person I can literally spend more than 24 hours non stop explaining everything that man does that makes him not just unpopular but a criminal who should be in prison with all the criminals he surrounds himself with as he uses all of his power to keep them out of consequences for their actions.
Ouais calme toi quand même fréro
Honestly, I think there wasn't another president under the fifth with so much ministers and staffers in troubles with the law...
That kind of stupid and crazy French who abused of red wine 🤣🤣🤣🤣
U r muslim boy
The WEF force is strong in this one….
You forgot the time Macron said that in a station, we can see "successful people and worthless people"
Im French and in my opinion 30% is quite popular.
To be honest, it's more about the Fifth Republic, which was necessary back when it was founded bt not anymore. It gives too much power to the President and not enough to Parliament, so it does feel like electing a king, and then electing some kind of counterbalance in the Législatives, and then that's about it. Not much control over anything, no referendums or anything, we just sit there and watch. So obviously when Macron engages in something people don't like, they feel powerless and angry, but it's the same situation as with Hollande and Sarkozy.
Macron has also had fairly good position and did many things for the greater good of the country, but it's hard to make a French person admit that.
Finally, he was elected TWICE, so really, we all know that he's not that bad, or at least, not as bad as we'd like to believe.
He's once quoted as saying
'there is no such thing as a European'
I hate him too.
He also said something like:
‘There is no French Culture’
(True quote) … like WTF, this man works for multinationals & foreign billionaires, and he isn’t even ashamed to declare his felony to the public
He also described protesters as ‘Gaulois réfractaires’ (‘ refractory Gauls’ ?)
A way to say ‘uneducated savages who oppose his vision of progress’ … I want to tell him ‘WTF Bro ?!´
We are one of the most progressive people on this earth, we are even the rare Europeans to have defended intelligence and scientific progress, against the AI acte promoted by the EU conservative dictatorship.
But maybe we just don’t want a man who only serves his individualist interest and those of a few oligarchs. He just doesn't want to hear the fact that he has become the monster he claimed to fight to get elected ( despotism of a few who think there are always right).
I understand and like that expose... BUT, it lacks one thing.
I do hate Macron's arrogance and all, as a French, but in the absolute, that's nothing. He could be the nicest person on earth - with his politics I'd still be pissed as hell against him. On the contrary, he could be the meanest and have policies that help people for real and I wouldn't care about his character as much.
I mean. I don't live with the guy.
So you expose really lacks an emphasis on how French society is gliding towards a lot more inequalities (you basically need to inherit to have a fair chance in life) - meritocracy is not even a mirage at this point.
They do nothing or less against fiscal fraud. Only point their guns at foreigners and poor people and then turn to big group to beg for investment.
THAT (among other things) is why I'd say many of us in France dislike if not hate the guy.
Not to mention the hypocrisy and the stupidity of his takes on secularism (recently with the Pope, and Hanukka), his uninformed stances on the international stage...
The man supposedly is intelligent - I'd rather say he has the intelligence and use it worse and worse.
And I'm pretty convinced his only success will be to put the far right behind the finish line - just like weak Obama and centristy-corrupty Temer in Brazil.
What grinds my gears is that moderate politicians forgot how to gather the people behind them.
I think it's because they are patronizing to the population rather than trying to understand the issues and instead create despair of being heard or understood and finally reaction.
Not sure the University of Nanterre is famous for being a "good" uni in France. 🤣
The French Revolution was more akin to the Bolshevik Revolution. More about equality worship then bringing liberty.
Hope we see a Sixth Republic very soon, the French need it so badly
The Republic is anti-France by essence. We need to get rid of that political system asap.
They should bring back the monarchy at this point.
@@DOCTORKHANblogthis
Ah yes, the French Debt Republic, where the President can't do anything but watch as the country spirals downwards to bankruptcy.
When you are less popular than Sunak it's time to walk.
wait until you heard about pedro sanchez lmao
"So in this video, we're gonna explore why Emmanuel Macron is so unpopular and whether it actually matters."
Well now, don't know about Ground news but that statement pretty much hints at a bias to me.
Although, I have to admit that you've done a very good job in trying to negate your pro-Macron bias that you occasionally show up (am one who is a regular and watches most of your content due to its significant objectivity in comparison to other media).
This is a very good video and to us that are not French, we actually see most French people the same way that he's seen: as arrogant, selfish, elite and out of touch.
I will never forgive him for introducing the Mobility Package Bill, which had screwed us in Eastern Europe when doing logistics with France.
All in all, good job, mates!
Everyone saying Macron is right wing, then you mention a typical left wing bill he pushed for at the EU level, interesting.
Because he does not need to be popular. He will be in the office till 2027 anyway. Than people will elect someone else with different name, party , opinions and they will do the same things as Macron did.
0:32 I heard Sunak is now down to -48% so at least Macron is only the *third* least popular 🙂
Government just hit the 22nd time of 49.3 in under 2 years. (17 dec 2023)
Make a video about how unpopular the Canadian prime minister is! He’s much worse.
As a Frenchman, if I had to make an educated guess as to why Macron is so much hated : 1) his extreme arrogance, giving the impression he openly take us for clueless morons. 2) his diplomatic CV is a complete disaster, he as antagonized all of our allies, and no foreign government take him seriously. 3 ) uncontrolled mass migration. 4) extremely high insecurity that is purposfully downplayed or even ignored. 5) he orchestrated the destruction of our energetic autonomy, resulting in extreme rise in electricity bill for the avarage citizen that is difficult to stomach ( my electricity bill experienced a 40 % rise this mounth) 6) under his rule, France is reduced to being just a mere carpet for the anglo-saxons who never miss an occasion to spit on us and grant us a glimpse of their bottomless arrogance... ( If you wonder why the French have a strong dislike of the UK and the US, maybe the daily French bashing that has been ongoing for nearly 30 years is to blame)
France and Britain are like sibling rivals
Number 3 is pretty serious right now. Can't wait for a president that will start a mass deportation
Extremely high insecurity, wtf are you on about ? If you mean, from the police towards the people, I agree, police criminality has been worsening at an alarming rate, but otherwise the crime rate is not at all at an all time high. However, any crime is HIGHLY overdramatized, IF a maghrebian or muslim is the perpetrator. Otherwise it is just ignored. Which brings forwards implicitely that immigration is bad.
@@Biditchoun Spare us your woke dogmas : go to France and ask the average citizen, and he or she will explain the exhasperation of the people about high criminality, the complete laxism of the justice that set free complete monsters, and don't call that racism, you can ask white, black, or maghrebian citizen, they will state the very same problem.
The Anglo-Saxons are still mad about Dreyfus lol
Well the French never like their politicians
At this point, it should be a competition for the French presidents who had the lowest approval rating during their presidency
I hate him from America. Not because I hate strategic autonomy. Just tired of hearing it and nothing happens. He likes big words not big actions.
TBF he had good proposals in 2017, problem is he did very little of what he had promised
Problem is he can't do anything on his own. It's an EU thing
If that's the case, maybe you should consider "hating" Germany. They are the main oppositors for the strategic autonomy in the EU. Macron can only do so much on EU-related topics, and he has been pushing quite a lot.
@@miguelsousa9802 Germany is doing something for Ukraine militarily. He wants people to sign on when France doesn’t even spend enough on defense. Why would anyone trust that?
@@diegoyuiop Always a proposal. He’s just talking for the most part. We all see how much respect he gets when in China. He’s weak 🤷♂️
Lol the french people think they can still retire on a fat state pension at 50 at the same time as stopping immigration 😂😂
Unfortunately when you've been telling people that's their right for decades and then suddenly you have to change it because it's collapsing, this will always be the reaction
@@diegoyuiop yep, an inability to change is an issue. The french in general are just impossible, 5 republics at this point is a bit insane. The fact their government can't even put speedometers up tells you everything you need to know about France
This is a Bs statement that probably comes from your ignorance. That reform was deeply unfair because it was affecting people that were starting to work very early. Old people that work very physically demanding Jobs have already very low life expectabcy (studies show that they have 15 years less than the average worker) and macron wants them to work even more
French peoples invest in AI, because they are more intelligent than the average European. Immigration isn’t the solution, AI is.
Soon Germany & Italy will bankrupt, because all of their citizens will be out of jobs. Europe will be a French / UK dominion. Who’s is the fool now ? 🤡
We aren’t unable to change, on the contrary, we welcomed our AI overlord.
We are just against stupid politics made my stupid money-men : damaging the retirement age, while in the same time we’re talking about UBI, is absolutely stupid.
They swore they had it worse with lapenne too😭
There is an election in June so let's hope he gets outed but he will get 81 million votes and we all know it.
because he is an elite. today political divide is not right against left. it is people against permanent political class. that is why far left and far right have common stances in many questions. like stance against liberal globalists. for different reasons, but both oppose their agenda.
He entered politics 2 years before getting elected president, something never seen before, how is that being in a "permanent political class" ?
@@aesma2522 he is from banking sector.
@@arisplugis5197 And bankers don't usually become politicians. He was already making millions, no need to go into politics where he's earning much less. Although I'm not convinced he ever cared about money, he's certainly not obsessed by it like Sarkozy. And he wasn't a real banker either, as in looking at numbers etc., he was a deal maker, a negotiator, a charmer, dealing in mergers and acquisitions.
@@aesma2522 bankers lobby politicians.
@@aesma2522 He was a WEF young global leader ,which strangely many politicians are nowadays . Who gave WEF the mandate to prepare "future leaders "? The WEF is a feudal organization that expects common people to control their carbon emissions while the elites roam about in private jets .
Its weird to think that the next French president is either Melanchon nor Le Penn.
France is set for a bumpy ride
Or an AGI.
@@Also_sprach_Zarathustra. AI is not taking over in the next few years.
between 2030-2040 is the most likely scenario. But whatever, we don't need an AGI to begin the politician's replacement. Even a narrow AI will be better than any politician we have (and we already have narrow AI) @@questionmaker5666
What is sure is that this is a long road. Jospin, Jupé, Le Pen they were all favorites from the polls that get lost on the way 😉 Time will tell... But what is sure is that Macron can not run a third term as per the written constitution 🎉
Do you think he beats Le Pen@@Besthinktwice
Ngl I thought at first when reading the title that this was about macarons
To be fair to the guy, no other politician in his shoes would fare any better.
I suspect lapen would as depressing as that is based on the meloni experience
He’s an American-styled neolib centrist with a French twist.
His unpopularity is throughly unsurprising.
Neosocialist*
More than just, you know, his pension reform
He's in touch with the WEF, that alone is enough for me to strongly dislike him.
Still better than Le Pen...
He's unpopular because he passes laws that are unpopular but needed to be passed.
Kind of sad to see him doing the right thing but being hated even though it's so obvious that France needs a major economic reform.
Lol, please be aware that Macron reforms will just temporaly push back an economic crash. The problem with France is the debt. And the solution is industry not social harrasment.
@@antoine4419 So you're saying we need more industry in France ? Why do you think industry left the country, because of too little "socialism" ?
Because they are hard to make
He didn't tell he wanted to "piss them off". It's not strong enough of a word to translate how rude he was then. It's more like "He told them to fuck off" or something like that. Again, not a perfect translation, but you get the idea
The question should be, why is he still in office?
Why shouldn't he? He got elected fair and square and the French Constitution gives him 5 years in office.
I'm not a fan but other french people are very attached to this Constitution that gives a lot of stability to the government.
Maybe it's because people can vote for someone to do the difficult job and then protest for 5 years while he still does it (if people had to take responsibility instead of just complaining it would be much more difficult to hate on governments)
In France you can't kick out the president until the end of his term. Macron's here until 2027 if he's still alive, which is probable.
@@augth Thats why the French invented Le Guillotine….