SPECIAL REPORT FRANCE: MACRON SPEECH FALLS FLAT POTS AND PANS BANGED ACROSS FRANCE TONIGHT, LE PEN SAYS MACRON HAS THREE OPTIONS

 

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                 POTS AND PANS PROTEST IN LA CIOTAT, FRANCE 4/17/2023

POTS AND PANS PROTEST IN LYON, FRANCE 4/17/2023 DURING THE EMMANUEL MACRON SPEECH

French President Emmanuel Macron made a brief speech at 8 pm tonight offering the people of France a host of issues beyond the pension reform issue he has alienated public opinion with.

Macron spoke the environment, he spoke law and order even talked about illegal immigration but with 64 percent of public opinion now supporting continuation of the protests begun to oppose his imposition of pension reform without a legislative vote it came as no surprise that protests organized on short notice sprung up across France this evening.

Thousands gathered in Paris clanging pots and pans...

This was the pattern in other cities as well.    Police banned the pots and pans protest in some locales like Dijon and Marseille.

But the protest went on in Marseille's Old Port area anyway....

Other demonstrations this evening included a thousand protesters in Nantes, another 700 in Rennes...VIDEO LINK and 200 in Nice.

Other protests in Lyon, Dieppe, Cannes, Le Havre and Rouen.

There was a pots and pans demonstration in Grenoble as well...VIDEO LINK

The Left and labor unions moving forward on the course of protest they will use May 1st (May Day) as their next day of mass demonstrations across France. 

While the Left seeks to make the noise in the streets France's leading opposition politician Marine Le Pen of the National Rally taking a quieter but firm stand against the pension reform.

The woman who got more than 40 percent of the vote against Macron in the final round of last year's presidential election shows in recent polling as the victor over Macron 55 to 45 percent if an election were held today.

But the next election is still four years away.

Marine Le Pen wrote of Macron as an "arsonist" of "democracy" on social media last weekend.

She said in a Sunday media interview that Emmanuel Macron has three options.

1. A Referendum On Pension Reform

2. Dissolution Of The National Assembly Leading To New Legislative Elections

3. Resignation Leading To A New Presidential Election

For now that's the story in France.