Macron faces deepening French political impasse: But does he do compromise?

In 2017, he blew up the system. Now, can he keep it together? France’s Emmanuel Macron had never run for public office before becoming president. And for a while, he seemed exempt from the crude reality of political horse-trading. Yet now, the same Macron who reigned supreme when he smashed the big tent centre-left and centre-right parties eight years ago is running out of road in his second term, with his baffling decision last year to dissolve parliament backfiring miserably and an even stronger opposition ousting the 47-year-old president’s second prime minister in under a year on Monday.