It's thesepolicieswhichcriticsbelievereinforcestheimageof a president, a formerinvestmentbanker, whosemainconcernisprotectingtheinterestsofthecountry's wealthy.
Butmanyexpertsseestrongresistancetoreforms, followedbygovernmentbacktracking, as a predictablecycleofmodernpoliticallifeinFrance.
ManyeconomistsarguethatMacron's reformsweredesignedtoimprove a strugglingeconomythatrecentlybecamethemosttaxedamongOECDmembers.
Thoseshrinkingeconomicopportunitiescoupledwith a lackofdemocraticrepresentationhascauseddiscontenttogrowamongstruralcommunitiesagainstthepoliticalsystemas a whole.