The correct operation of the different functions of our website cannot be guaranteed if cookies are rejected. During his mandate, he carried out important reforms which restored the competitiveness and the growth of the French economy. He faced authoritatively the terrorist attacks that afflicted the country in and President Hollande took important decisions on behalf of France, in particular the engagement of the Army in Mali in order to fight against terrorist groups located in the Sahel.
From fierce opposition to the Calais migrant camp to euroscepticism in the face of German-inspired austerity , the president dithered between a traditional left-wing defence of progressive values and an attempt to appease the shift to the right across France. Like more or less every president before him, when the going got tough domestically, Hollande sought to shift the focus overseas, with notable interventions in Mali, Syria and Iraq.
But there seemed little point in shouting about all that once Islamic State had used the interventions as justification for attacks in France. Instead, when France most needed a leader to stand up for the causes of working people Hollande was found badly lacking.
In fact the only major uplift in his approval ratings came when his affair with the actress Julie Gayet was exposed. His habit of hesitation has tarnished his time in office and could now cost the left a place in the second round of the election ahead. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth. Nearing the midway point of his mandate, Hollande told an interviewer he would forego a re-election bid if his government failed to turn a corner on massive unemployment.
The jobless rate stood just above 10 percent at the time. From that point on the suspense around his conditional candidacy grew, like a rising, collective itch the president refused to scratch. Finally, in December , he solemnly announced he would not run for a second term, another first for a modern French president.
He would step aside not because of the jobs situation, which he argued was improving, but because his candidacy had created too many divisions within the political left. His job approval rating tanked to a historic low of 11 percent. Whatever the cause, the Hollande era now had an expiration date. Rather, it was a chronic failure to connect with ordinary people that condemned his presidency. They could never figure out who the real Hollande was.
His advisors implored him to change, to show some emotion, to get angry, to express some feeling, but he refused. Raffy believes over the past six decades French people have come to expect a sense of familiarity from their president.
It was a closeness Hollande denied voters, time and time again. Hollande leaves behind a country fearful of the next terrorist attack, sceptical it can achieve meaningful economic growth anytime soon. Daily newsletter Receive essential international news every morning. Take international news everywhere with you! Download the France 24 app. The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore.
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