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Limousin September 2014 - Issue #59
Government resigns after just 147 days
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Prime Minister Manuel Valls has presented his cabinet's resignation to President François Hollande after the economy minister publicly criticised the government and called for an end to the austerity policies being "imposed by Germany".
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who Valls claimed had “crossed a yellow line” when he publicly said that the country was on the wrong economic course. Montebourg called on the government to end austerity policies and focus on growth. “France is a free country which shouldn't be aligning itself with the obsessions of the German right,” he said, urging a “just and sane resistance.” The now former economy minister told a news conference following the dissolution of the cabinet that he thought it necessary to speak out to try to avert the European Union's “descent into hell”. “I informed the prime minister that if he deemed my convictions counter to the direction of the gov-
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rance was thrown into political turmoil in late August after Prime Minister Manuel Valls presented his government's resignation. The move followed bitter in-fighting within the cabinet and increasingly dire economic and poll figures. With President Hollande's approval ratings the lowest of any leader in more than half a century and with the popularity of Valls also plummeting to just 36%, a scathing attack from within the cabinet proved to be the last straw for a government that lasted just 147 days. That attack came from maverick economy minister, Arnaud Montebourg,
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