With their call to demonstrate against the appointment of Michel Barnier to Matignon and the “coup de force by Macron”, the rebels only gathered 26,000 people in Paris according to the police headquarters – 160,000 according to LFI. A mixed success.
A mixed success. By gathering only 26,000 people in Paris according to the police headquarters – 160,000 according to La France insoumise – against the “coup de force of Emmanuel Macron”, Jean-Luc Mélenchon did not find the level of mobilization of the fight against the pension reform. But with some 150 mobilizations planned throughout France, the left, LFI is laying its foundations before a political autumn that promises to be hot. “Denial of democracy”, “the French did not vote for this”, “let him (Macron) resign”: in the marches, the same words, often, to express the indignation, the resentment and the anger at the nomination of LR Michel Barnier as Prime Minister, a post that Emmanuel Macron refused to Lucie Castets, the candidate of the New Popular Front (NFP), who came out on top in the early legislative elections in July.
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Cindy Rondineau, a 40-year-old photographer, and her partner Aubin Gouraud, a 42-year-old farmer, have a very left-wing heart but say they are not used to demonstrating. On Saturday morning, however, they traveled from Chaumes-en-Retz to Nantes – a good thirty kilometers – to demonstrate because, they say, they are “really angry”. “We really feel like we are not being listened to as voters,” the couple say. “And on top of that, we are constantly being demonized.”
Their 8-year-old daughter carries a sign “Macron you’re screwed, the CE2s are in the street” in the middle of a family and good-natured procession that marched behind a banner “one solution impeachment”. The demonstration gathered between 2,500 according to the prefecture and 8,000 participants according to the organizers. At the other end of France, the turnout was smaller in Nice. In a department where RN, LR and the Ciotti-RN union lists share all nine constituencies, between 900 and 1,000 people according to sources demonstrated behind the banner “Let’s defend our democracy”.
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