{"id":29320,"date":"2019-01-16T00:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29320"},"modified":"2019-01-16T00:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:23:57","slug":"can-macrons-open-letter-save-his-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29320","title":{"rendered":"Can Macron&#8217;s open letter save his presidency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"72.2373806276\">\n<p>Shaken by weekly protests on the streets of France, sparked by a rise in fuel prices, French President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/emmanuel-macron.html\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a>\u00a0says he wants to turn anger into solutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/emmanuel-macron.html\">Macron<\/a>&#8216;s answer is to build a new &#8220;contract&#8221; with the nation.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s launched a two-month national debate\u2026and says he&#8217;s open to ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/france.html\">French<\/a> will be encouraged to vent their grievances and offer new suggestions online and in meetings around the country.<\/p>\n<p>But is he simply buying time?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Nick Clark<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pierre Olivier Pinquet &#8211; Member of the Yellow Vest movement<\/p>\n<p>Jacques Reland &#8211; Head of European Research at the Global Policy Institute<\/p>\n<p>Laura Slimani &#8211; member of the Generation.S a French political party created by Beno\u00eet Hamon<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaken by weekly protests on the streets of France, sparked by a rise in fuel prices, French President Emmanuel Macron\u00a0says he wants to turn anger into solutions. Macron&#8217;s answer is to build a new &#8220;contract&#8221; with the nation. He&#8217;s launched a two-month national debate\u2026and says he&#8217;s open to ideas. The French will be encouraged to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}