President Macrons speech on Monday was met with mixed reactions in the small towns in the French countryside where the Yellow vests (gilets jaunes) have their strongest holds.
In the loosely cohesive lokalgrupperna mean a part that now is the time to initiate a dialogue with the government. But of the 19 per cent of the French adult population that identifies itself as the ”yellow vests” is 86 per cent are still convinced that vägblockaderna should continue, according to a new survey from Ipsos.
This worries the government, which call for a ”responsible demonstration”, not least against the background of this week’s terrorist attacks in Strasbourg.
– the Yellow vests have to realize that their protests, in particular in Paris, attracted right – and vänsterextremister, vandals and looters who only use the motion. Yesterday evening I was in Strasbourg and saw how people applauded our police officers. Shall we now allow to cast stones at them? No, for my part, I refuse, ” said interior minister Christophe Castaner.
as the administration of Jean-Luc Mélenchon criticises the government.
It amazes me that the government is trying to use this attack in order to attack the Yellow vests. If we allow a killer to change our lives, then he has won, ” said Mélenchon.
prior to Saturday’s manifestations have a conspiracy theory circulated on social media of Emmanuel Macron tweeted about the terrorist attack before it took place, and thus would have known about it in advance.
quickly discovered that it is a fake news story, and the screenshots with the timestamps, which is spread as ”proof” come from twitter accounts with California’s time zone set (the Twitters preset – nine hours for French time).
But in the facebook groups and pages as many ”yellow jackets” by spreading ”the news” healthy, even if it occasionally gets contradicted. French authorities have also begun to take an interest in a large number of suspected Russian ”trollkonton” on Twitter, which gives support to the movement’s more radical elements.
most of The sociologists agree that the level of dissatisfaction, in essence, is genuine, and has grown to over a longer period of time. 68% of French people support or sympathize even with the movement – which makes it difficult to deal with for Macros.
earlier in the week has made a big hole in the budget, and no real margin for additional expenditure are not available.
Also for the opposition means the movement is a difficult balancing act. On the one hand, both Le Pen as Mélenchon avoid the movement launches an own list for the european Elections next year – for such would be able to get 12 per cent, according to a new measurement, and is likely to take a part of their support. On the other hand, a radicalisation of the Yellow vests to fight back against the politicians who urged on the movement.
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