The most unpopular President of France in living memory was expected to be "grilled" with leading questions of how he intended to "get France back to work", to "lead the fight", towards economic recovery.
Alas, nothing he said last night gives the smallest clue of how he will attain this objective !
8 million spectators were scotched to their television sets last night, expecting a raft of measures designed to reverse the Economic Disaster their country is facing ! 90 minutes later they suddenly realised the "show" was over ! There were no magic measures !
This morning the first media comments are very unfavourable. The first hour was spent answering the questions of four individual French citizens for which Hollande had all the detailed answers at his fingertips. He explained how he had already tried to cover their problem.
The last 30 minutes were designed to find out what changes he and his Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, were intending to introduce during the last half of his mandate as President. Nothing really new was forthcoming !
France is in an economic mess but nothing new was proposed ! A discussion of the "cause and effect", the "ripple effect", of any new economic options was avoided.
The impression now is that Hollande has no idea how to solve current problems ; there will be social unrest in the coming weeks and months as a result !
There will also be many more acid comments on his Leadership as President !
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