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Saturday, April 15, 2023
FRANCE YELLOW VESTS WEEK 231: MACRON SEEKS TO 'MOVE ON', PROTESTS AFTER CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL DECISION, MAINSTREAM MEDIA SEEKS JANUARY 6TH NARRATIVE, LE PEN CALLS MACRON 'ARSONIST'
(MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES ARE USED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS POST)
WEEKLY YELLOW VESTS MARCH IN PARIS APRIL 15, 2023
In the last week it has been painfully clear that Emmanuel Macron wants to move on from his imposition of pension reforms including the rise in retirement age to 64 from 62.
The visit to China allowed Mr. Macron to plant the notion that France should steer clear of the US-China confrontation over Taiwan take a middle ground oppose what he asserted were belligerent positions on both sides.
There are those in France Left and Right who have disdain for the United States.
Perhaps Macron thought he could gain popular support and traction by drawing attention to what appears to be criticism of the US.
Conservative commentators in the US took a few shots but not much debate or distraction from France's malaise the poor economic conditions and the prospect of having to work harder to reach retirement for the average person in France.
Macron's visit to the Netherlands punctuated by a protest banner and hecklers as he spoke in The Hague.
A banner hung during the protest reading:
"President Of Violence And Hypocrisy"
The recent conflict with Leftist environmental protesters in rural France with objections to police violence also mixed in with the opposition to pension reform in the heckling.
Emmanuel Macron the former banker turned politician trying to be a "Centrist" has clearly alienated his Left with the highly unpopular pension reform and moved people in the Center in the direction of Marine Le Pen and the National Rally.
The government and its mainstream media allies trying to portray the Constitutional Council's Friday decision on the legality of Macron's imposition of pension reform as a final act for the issue stressing the need to move on afterwards.
And again protesters taking to the streets Thursday more strikes to oppose the imposition of the pension reform.
1.5 million protesting according to the unions 380,000 according to the government.
On Friday's the Constitutional Council's decision kept the retirement age increase from 62 to 64 intact. It said some parts of the pension reform law belonged in social security legislation.
The labor union and opposition political forces vowed that the opposition will continue.
A new day of protest set for May 1st (May Day) a traditional day for labor union marches.
Emmanuel Macron's push for a meeting with the union leaders next Tuesday rebuffed they say no such meeting will take place until after May 1st.
Today protesters gathered in Paris for a regular weekly Yellow Vests demonstration.
PROTESTERS GATHER IN PARIS FOR WEEKLY YELLOW VESTS PROTESTS APRIL 15, 2023
And the protesters moving peacefully through Paris singing the Yellow Vests song as certain times the procession with drums also used banners and the French flag....
Numerous protests called across France today in opposition to Macron and his imposition of pension reform.
The mainstream media spin on protests focusing on the extreme elements and their January 6th type acts of vandalism setting fires etc., etc.
Thousands protested in Rennes today here is the full video of that event.
It was a very peaceful procession and at the end is when the "incidents" with the police were seen almost like January 6th in Washington DC...
PUBLIC OPINION CONSTANTLY BEING SURVEYED TO TRY TO FIND A NARRATIVE THAT WILL HELP THE GOVERNMENT AND MAINSTREAM MEDIA SHIFT PUBLIC OPINION THEIR WAY.
BUT THEY FOUND THAT 60 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE IN FRANCE WANT THE PROTESTS TO CONTINUE.
"an arsonist who will have damaged our democracy"
Marine Le Pen, who leads the National Rally in the National Assembly, France's leading opposition personality characterizing Emmanuel Macron on social media today.
She noted that Macron signed the pension legislation at 3:28 am this morning in the dead of night.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne saying today that the government will continue to move forward with other 'reforms' in the months ahead. This may be reflected in Macron's planned Monday night speech.
Last Thursday Yellow Vests in Auxerre staged a traditional traffic circle protest in opposition to the pension reform after they marched through the city in the Burgundy region...
That's the story of France and the Yellow Vests for this week.
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