Go, fourth? France likely to lose another PM

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm Jason Palmer.

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  And I'm Rosie Bloor.

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  Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  China's citizens are serious savers and that's a problem when it comes to consumption.

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  One way around that would be reforming the famously stingy pension system.

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  It would be good stimulus and good social policy if the government dared to do it.

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  And I really hope that I sound completely normal to you right now and not like Donald Duck

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  because apparently a lot of you listen to podcasts at double speed.

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  Our correspondent asks

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  if I'm being precious by minding about this and how your listening experience might suffer.

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  But first,

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  when France's President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the country's parliament in June of last year,

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  it was entirely unexpected, a gamble.

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  He had hoped to recoup the political majority he'd lost in 2022,

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  but his minority got even more minor.

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  As support has shifted both to the left and to the hard right,

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  getting anything through Parliament has proved impossible.

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  Even existential for one Prime Minister after another.

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