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French Socialists Revolt Against Prime Minister, Threaten Vote of No Confidence
Townhall.com ^ | April 7, 2014 | Mike Shedlock

Posted on 04/07/2014 12:10:52 PM PDT by Kaslin

Further compounding president Francois Hollande's problem with the European Commission Rejection of France's Proposal for Deficit Target Leniency, the socialists are in open revolt against new Prime Minister Manuel Valls.

The socialists consider Valls as too pro-business. They want less austerity and a reduction in personal taxes, not corporate taxes. And they are against Hollande's "responsibility pact" proposal that would reduce labor costs and cut government spending.

Via translation from Les Echos, please consider Socialist MPs Threaten a Vote of No Confidence on Account of Valls

Nearly a hundred of Socialist deputies signed a document calling for political change of course and threaten a vote of no confidence in the government on Tuesday. The members of parliament (MPs), groggy out of defeat in local elections, gain momentum to contest the elements of "pact of responsibility."

Jean-Marc Germain, leader of "rebuilders" and very close to the mayor of Lille Martine Aubry, warned Friday that 65 members wanted to get "insurance", including a stronger role for Parliament. Ranks have swelled with the release of a "contract of majority" launched by Pouria Amirshahi among others, Jean-Marc Germain or Laurence Dumont, Vice-President of the Assembly.

This text calls for the Government to consult further their majority and to reorient its policy and that of Europe to fight austerity, investing directly for employment and to favor a "demand shock" through measures favor of purchasing power.

President Francois Hollande promised on Jan. 14 to engage the responsibility of the Government to the pact of responsibility, which includes a reduction of labor costs by 10 billion euros. But the government reshuffle and increasingly hard criticism by the socialist majority have changed the situation.

The absence of policy change line has weighed heavily in the decision environmentalists and casts uncertainty over their vote Tuesday. François Hollande and his government are thus caught between two fires, the majority of which are increasingly demanding the end of austerity and that of the European Commission, for the moment, refuses to France a additional time to achieve its deficit reduction.

Demand Shock Spending Spree Not Coming

In light of the EC's rejection of Valls' request for more time to meet deficit reduction targets, its safe to say a French spending spree is not coming. It will be amusing to see what sleight of hand magic Hollande proposes in its next budget proposal to Brussels.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: countdown2war

1 posted on 04/07/2014 12:10:52 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Fortunately France has much Nuke power so they can more readily blow off their philosophical compatriots in Russia who want to raise gas prices.


2 posted on 04/07/2014 12:16:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Kaslin

Western Europe will implode. Too many incompatibles rolling in the same wallow.


3 posted on 04/07/2014 12:17:14 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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To: Kaslin

Oh dear. All is not well in unicorn-and-skittles land.


4 posted on 04/07/2014 12:18:47 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Kaslin

They won’t do it for it would be political suicide. If the French Parliament is dissolved, Hollande would end up “cohabiting” with a center-right majority government for the rest of his term in office. He would effectively become a lame duck.

I don’t know if the Socialists understand the political landscape after the pummeling they took in local elections in March. Then again leftists do tend to live in denial of reality.


5 posted on 04/07/2014 12:28:32 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: BillyBoy; GeronL; fieldmarshaldj
The socialists consider Valls as too pro-business.

Sacrebleu!

6 posted on 04/07/2014 12:35:26 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy

I thought it was jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs that got politicians elected.

Silly me.


7 posted on 04/07/2014 12:38:09 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Impy; GeronL; fieldmarshaldj
>> The socialists consider Valls as too pro-business. <<

Heh. In both France and Mexico, the leftist party that supposedly would DOOOOOOOOOM their respective countries has been pissing off socialists far more than the previous "conservative" government ever did.

8 posted on 04/07/2014 12:44:09 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
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To: Kaslin

Hitler couldn’t do it, but now Germany is running France.


9 posted on 04/07/2014 2:05:48 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Kaslin

The Socialists are revolting.

You’re telling me. They stink on ice.


10 posted on 04/07/2014 2:07:06 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

At last French leftists have found something they will fight for.


11 posted on 04/07/2014 2:27:42 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: dfwgator
You’re telling me. They stink on ice.

Pull!

12 posted on 04/07/2014 2:29:07 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: 1010RD

Hitler couldn’t do it, but now Germany is running France.

*************

Montblanc and pinstripes did better for them than Mausers and feldgrau.


13 posted on 04/07/2014 2:31:31 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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