President Hollande has enough problems in France at present but he still prefers to be seen visiting regional areas of France rather face politicians in Paris !!!
What are his problems ?
1) His popularity polls are the lowest of all Presidents of the current Fifth Republic, founded by De Gaulle in 1958.
2) There are daily protests about the introduction of "Marriage for Everyone", i.e. one sex marriages. In Catholic France this does not go down very well !!! There are as many "for" as "against" !!!
3) He really did not need the Scandal of the Cahuzac Affair, the Minister he chose to supervise Budgetary and Financial Stability. Cahusac finally admitted to being a serial liar about his offshore accounts in Switzerland or Singapore !!!
4) President Hollande is now faced with the economic decline of France;
- there is mass unemployment,
- this leads to more social benefits payments,
- which means higher "tax income" is required by the Government !!!
5) President Hollande has already promised that "income tax" will not be increased !!! Great, but what will increase to provide the "income" his Government needs to cover just "benefits payments" ?
6) Cutting the cost of running Civil Service Departments, Government Agencies etc. is out of the question ! Sacking people to make more Unemployed ?
7) The obvious "gamble" will be to increase the rate of Sales Taxes !!! Will anyone really notice, beyond those in real need ? Other "taxes" as well, on petrol for example ......
Scratching around for possible new revenues was not included in the "60 Promises" Hollande made to convince voters that he should replace Sarkozy as the President of France !!!
The promised introduction of his "60 Promises" has been put on a back burner !!! The real problem for the French is to know what they can expect next !!!
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