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Thousands protest across France after Macron rejects left’s demands [1]

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Date: 2024-09-07 16:19:06+00:00

The leftist alliance secured a surprise victory in France’s snap elections, which Macron called after the far right’s triumph in the European elections in June. Despite finishing first, however, the New Popular Front fell far short of an absolute majority.

The French Greens, the Communists and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed movement all called on their supporters to join the protests. The Socialist Party is the only one of the alliance’s four main members that chose not to participate.

At the head of the Parisian procession, Melenchon spoke passionately, declaring that “the French people are in rebellion. They have entered into revolution.”

“There will be no pause, no truce. I call you to a long-term battle,” he added.

Several of the organizers claimed that 160,000 protesters took to the streets in Paris on Saturday, with a total of 300,000 in all of France. But Paris authorities estimated that only 26,000 demonstrators marched in the French capital.

All four left-wing forces within the New Popular Front, which control 193 of the 577 seats in the French National Assembly, have announced plans to vote for a motion of no confidence against Barnier’s government.

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[1] Url: https://www.politico.eu/article/thousands-protest-across-france-after-macron-rejects-lefts-demands/

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