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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angelique Chrisafis in Paris

France’s political crisis reveals deep rift between the people and their politicians

Emmanuel Macron graphic
SR-france Composite: AFP / Getty Images / Guardian Design

As the French government faces likely collapse in a confidence vote on Monday, plunging the eurozone’s second biggest economy and key diplomatic power into a domestic political crisis, Jonathan Denis, a 42-year-old a bank manager and health rights campaigner, was concerned about the terrible impact it will have on France’s dying and terminally ill.

The centrist president Emmanuel Macron had promised assisted dying and improved palliative care would be the biggest social reform of his second term but the bill, which had been scheduled to go before the senate next month, now risks being delayed once more by the unpredictable revolving door of four prime ministers in just over three years.

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