The French once again took to the streets against Macron
Thousands of French protesters came to the streets of Paris again this Saturday (September 31) to protest the policies of Emmanuel Macron’s governme and the appoime of Michel Barnier as the new prime minister.
According to RCO News Agency, the French leftist parties protesting Emmanuel Macron’s disregard for appoiing members of the new governme despite the victory of these parties in the early parliameary elections in July, organized another demonstration for this Saturday in the heart of Paris. Demonstrators started this demonstration from the beginning of Basti Square in Paris.
According to “Sputnik” News agency, it was estimated that more than 3,200 people participated in today’s demonstration in Paris, which is less than the similar demonstration that was organized 2 weeks ago. Today, nearly 50 protest rallies against Emmanuel Macron were held across France.
Demonstrators demanded Macron’s resignation. A group of protesters of the “yellow vest” moveme displayed a banner on which was written: “Taxes and social justice” in today’s demonstration in Paris. Protesters criticized the rece appoime of Michel Barnier, a senior member of France’s Republican Party, as prime minister despite his party’s poor results in July’s parliameary elections.
Meanwhile, one of France’s largest trade unions, the Confederation of All Labor, has called for a protest strike on October 1 to demand the cancellation of Macron’s coroversial pension reforms and higher wages.
On September 5th, after long political speculation, Macron appoied Michel Barnier, the former French foreign minister and former EU chief Brexit negotiator, as the new prime minister of France.
French newspapers reported last week that the impeachme motion against Macron, which was requested by the left-wing “France Invincible” party earlier this moh, has been discussed in the coury’s parliame.
After experiencing the unexpected defeat of his party in the European Parliame elections in June and the jump in the votes of the extreme right, Macron felt threatened and decided to take a political gamble by issuing a call for early elections in July.
Following France’s early parliameary elections in July, the left-wing New Popular Fro coalition won 182 of the 577 seats in the French National Assembly. In this election, the coalition belonging to Macron called “Together for the Republic” came in second place and won 168 seats in the National Assembly.
The far-right party of the National Assembly, which had an alliance with the moderate right-wing Republican Party, also won 143 seats in this election. In this way, as a result of these elections, none of the famous political parties of France could get a majority in the parliame with which they would be able to form a new governme.
After obtaining unfavorable results in the elections and despite the fact that the leftists won, Macron rejected the possibility that the New Popular Fro would participate in the formation of the governme, as well as the candidate proposed by this leftist coalition for the French Prime Minister, “Lucy Caste”.
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