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But despite its problems, the divisions between left and right – and the very different priorities of the so-called Yellow Vests – mean that its political future is badured, at least in the short term, added Matthew Staples, Lecturer and Tutor staff at the School of Politics, Philosophy, Economics, Development and Geography of the Open University. He added that Mr. Macron was at risk of advancing his controversial Labor Bill, known as the Labor Code, which was intended to facilitate the hiring and firing of businesses, to simplify negotiations between employers and employers. employees and reduce the power of national collective bargaining, despite criticism directed against him. Staples told Express.co.uk that the protests were "extremely detrimental" for Macron. According to recent polls, 58% of French people would have at least a little sympathy for yellow vests.
He said: "Every French car has to wear a safety kit and a yellow vest is one of them. It therefore has an emblematic and egalitarian symbolism. Demonstrations or similar movements are taking place in many European countries, along with similar attempts to cut public spending and relax labor laws.
"In France, they may be later than most – the way demonstrations manifest themselves depends on the functioning of a particular political culture.
"When the center is so powerful, the left and the right will use different means to influence politics – in Britain, the emergence of Occupy / Stop the War and UKIP – the perception that the center and many people think at the center -off elite, often in business, normally in metropolitan cities do not listen to ordinary people. "
Nevertheless, he felt that Yellow Vests were undermined by the absence of a unifying cause or ideology.
He said: "They may have started as a fairly consistent protest against the amendments to the Labor Code and the Social Security Budget and were initially taken into account, with meetings between the protesters and ministers but they have now become the expression of many dissatisfied.
"What unites them is the dissatisfaction aroused by Macron's policies – but their dissatisfactions are varied and mutually exclusive – some denounce its internationalism and its commitment to the EU, some of them are." 39 congratulate, some welcome the cuts in welfare (especially for migrants), others want them completely reversed. So, he became increasingly disparate as a movement. "
Speaking of Mr. Macron's public image, Mr. Staples said: "The Benalla affair and the impression that he thought he could do what he did. wished in this context, as well as the incident where he had asked to be qualified as "SIR PRESIDENT", told an unemployed young man, he could cross the street and find him a job. In a country where the unemployment rate is almost double, he created the image of a distant politician, as his attempts to build a swimming pool in the presidential enclosure of southern France. .
"He benefited from a presidential rebound in his first year in power, which allowed a relatively moderate response to the initial changes in labor legislation in 2017/18 and cuts in social protection programs. He now has as a backdrop what is at the heart of his changes to the labor code in the coming year.
"His attempts to defuse the situation have been mitigated and focus only on the elements that affect his projects. The increase in the minimum wage is quite marginal, but does not affect his plans to greatly facilitate the recruitment and dismissal of workers. for example."
As such, Mr. Staples stated that Mr. Macron had no intention of backing down.
He said: "His New Year's speech suggests a determination to continue reforms of the Labor Code. It seems that defusing them is not a first impulse.
"I think he thinks he can win and he calculates that even if the French do not like him, he thinks he knows it may be necessary – this drug is not very nice, but it will improve the patient.
"His aspirations are to really solve the problem of unemployment in France, which has dominated the country since the 1970s, with unemployment figures higher than those of the EEC / EU for much of that period."
Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right party National Rally (RN), the renowned National Front founded by her father Jean-Maine Le Pen, was beaten by Mr. Macron during the presidential election of Last year. since then, urging French voters to hold elections to the European Parliament for a referendum on his presidency.
However, regarding the future electoral prospects of Mr. Macron and his newspaper En Marche! Staples said, "It could be argued that both the left and the right could benefit from Macron's reaction and its drop in the polls.
"However, the RN / FN already hold 20% of the French seats in the EU and it is unlikely that they will get much more than that, given the fact that the far left in France has also had an impact on the elections for the European elections. In France."
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