With the President Emmanuel Macron seek (and not find) an emergency exit in parliament, unions struggle to fight, and protesters become more and more radical, France is undoubtedly in a political crisis. The French president’s decision to reform the country’s pension system by presidential decree, bypassing the National Assembly, where it holds a relative but not absolute majority of seats, has provoked a reaction whose outcome is currently unpredictable.

President Macron hoped that a majority of the roughly 60 MPs from the opposition centre-right Republican Party (which strongly supports raising the retirement age to 65) would support the government’s proposal to retire at 64, up from today’s 62. If this happened, then the majority in the French National Assembly would be in favor of the pension reform bill. But when the French president realized that his hopes were not justified and “the beans do not come out,” he chose the path of a presidential decree rather than withdrawing the bill, which, in his opinion, would have dealt a blow to France’s international authority. The decision collectively prompted the opposition to file an impeachment petition against the government, which will be considered tomorrow, Monday. If one of these proposals is approved, it will set aside the government of Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne and the reform of the pension system, since the presidential decree will be canceled.

In recent months, the French government has, of course, faced impeachment proposals that were rejected after parties on the left refused to side with the far right. However, one of the latest petitions for impeachment was filed by a group of independent deputies, and they said that both Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left and Marine Le Pen’s far right would vote for him. If a majority of Republican deputies follow them, the government will fall, and then President Macron will either have to coexist in exercising power with opposition forces, or resign, calling a presidential election, or calling new parliamentary elections. The possibility of new congressional elections is more frightening than all Republican congressmen, who know that their party is a model of decay and, in all likelihood, most of them will not be re-elected. However, Marine Le Pen made a move that can be described as “political bribery.” She stated that in the event of a parliamentary election, her party would not nominate candidates from the Republican Party in constituencies who would contribute to the fall of the Bourne government. This will greatly increase their chances of being re-elected.

However, given parliamentary weakness, public opposition to his proposals for pension reform and increased violence in the streets and squares of France, Emmanuel Macron is undoubtedly experiencing the most difficult period of his presidential term. post of President of the Republic. As is customary in times of crisis in France, at some point the President of the Republic takes the floor and addresses the citizens. As for Emmanuel Macron, many are wondering if he will ever speak, but even more are wondering what he might say under the current circumstances.

^{With information from APE-MPE}