After bashing Sarkozy's gov for cutting education functionaries (no firing, but non-replacement of one half of retiring education employees) and promising to rehire all 60,000 of them the second he's elected president, Socialist candidate François Hollande is at a loss for words.
Why?
Because France's AAA rating is about to expire under a massive pile of public debt, and such silly promises, even if he never had the slightest intention of honoring them, make financial markets even more nervous, which is to say hysterical.
So what to tell teachers?
Hollande's problem: tell the truth (which is pretty obvious) and disappoint the troups, or lie (which is also pretty obvious) and risk accidentally being believed by the moneymen who keep France afloat.
Not unexpectedly the right-leaning Le Figaro rejoices at Hollande's dilemna, in "Future Teachers Demand Explanations from Holland" (in French).
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