France under Macron keeps getting worse

The warnings continue to come thick and fast in France about the disaster that could befall the Republic on 7 July if Emmanuel Macron and his government are not returned to power. From the celebrity world to the corporate world – including American investment bank Goldman Sachs – the belief is that France is doomed if either Marine Le Pen’s ‘union of the right’ or Jean-Luc Melenchon’s left-wing coalition is elected to government.

Several former senior French politicians have joined the fear-mongering, among them Dominique de Villepin, who was Jacques Chirac’s centre-right prime minister in the 2000s before leaving politics for a lucrative career working with Qatar. In an interview on Wednesday evening, de Villepin warned that the ‘real threat to our country’ is Le Pen because her National Rally is ‘a party of protest, not of proposals’.

In the eyes of de Villepin the only sensible vote in the upcoming parliamentary election is for Macron’s centrist coalition because ‘the central force is the one likely to provide the answers’.