{"id":77422,"date":"2014-04-01T17:41:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=77422"},"modified":"2014-04-01T17:41:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:41:20","slug":"frances-government-resigns-en-masse-but-hollandes-clinging-on-failing-socialist-policies-blamed-for-elections-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=77422","title":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s government resigns en masse (but Hollande&#8217;s clinging on): Failing socialist policies blamed for elections rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/\u0585\u056c\u0561\u0576\u0564.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75114\" alt=\"\u0585\u056c\u0561\u0576\u0564\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/\u0585\u056c\u0561\u0576\u0564.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/\u0585\u056c\u0561\u0576\u0564.jpg 635w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/\u0585\u056c\u0561\u0576\u0564-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/\u0585\u056c\u0561\u0576\u0564-401x300.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s socialist prime minister resigned along with his entire government yesterday following a meltdown in local elections.<br \/>\nAnd last night socialist President Francois Hollande \u2013 whose rule has become synonymous with a 75 per cent top rate of income tax \u2013 admitted to mistakes and said his priority was now to cut taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s resignation is a huge blow to the president, who was elected to a five-year term in 2012 but whose first two years in power have seen him become the most unpopular head of state in recent history.<\/p>\n<p>In a TV address to the nation last night President Hollande spoke of a \u2018moral crisis\u2019, adding: \u2018It\u2019s legitimate after what happened to change things.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He said boosting the economy was now the priority and added: \u2018It is essential for our country to produce more, to produce better, to produce French.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He also pledged to lower taxes and said France would have to persuade EU partners to take into account its efforts to boost the economy when examining its commitments to Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hollande also confirmed a plan to cut 50billion euros in government spending.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hollande replaced Mr Ayrault with Manuel Valls, the tough-talking interior minister \u2013 the French version of home secretary \u2013 who is fiercely anti-immigration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; France\u2019s socialist prime minister resigned along with his entire government yesterday following a meltdown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":75114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[8733,5862,8732],"class_list":["post-77422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-elections-rout","tag-hollande","tag-socialist-policies","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}