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In social networks, after a year-end marked by the slowdown in mobilization, the "yellow vests" are trying to regain strength already this Saturday, with meetings in "symbolic places" of cities French.
Eric Drouet, one of the leading media leaders, was interviewed last Wednesday in Paris.
One of the main media leaders, Eric Drouet, was questioned last Wednesday in Paris, near the Champs Elysees. His detention provoked the indignation of the opposition parties, right and left.
Drouet has since been released, but his arrest serves the protest movement itself, which considers it a deterrent on the part of the authorities, in order to avoid undeclared demonstrations.
Two marches of protest
Faced with this "repression", the collective "France in cholera" suggested to its supporters to wear their yellow vest to "go to the streets, in the squares, as ordinary citizens "
The collective, composed of two figures of the movement, Eric Drouet himself and Priscillia Ludosky, as well as the mayor of Paris, made a demonstration in front of the National Assembly on the place of the ;City Hall.
The town hall also received another statement of protest that begins on the Champs-Elysees, followed by a march on the market square.
Sunday walks are still scheduled for "yellow jackets for women". The organizers say on their Facebook page as "complementary and supportive of men", promising a "high impact action". "This is not a feminist but feminine struggle," reads the text of the presentation.
"Fury will become hate"
At noon this Friday, fewer than a thousand people had confirmed their participation in the Facebook event titled "France in cholera". On Saturday, organizers hope to publicly read a "citizen's open letter" aired since Thursday evening in response to the end-of-year speech delivered by French President Emmanuel Macron on December 31st.
"Fury will turn into hatred if you continue, from your pedestal, you and your peers, to consider the common people as a bronco," they warn in the letter.
"Change your attitude and invite them to speak at the table," they add, implicitly rejecting Macron's great national debate, which they see as a "political trap".
"We do not resign ourselves" and "we will go further", promises the collective. "Do not think that they are above the laws and the will of the French people," they said, recalling the 2013-14 Ukrainian revolution that overthrew the president of Ukraine, the pro-Russian government Viktor Yanukovych
denounces the "agitators"
This Friday, the French executive denounced "agitators" who "want to overthrow the government".
His spokesman, Benjamin Griveaux, said at the beginning of the first cabinet meeting of the year that the movement "has become, for those who remain mobilized, an act of agitators who want an insurrection. and, in the background, overthrow the government. " "They do not want to," he accused, "participate in the great national debate."
"We must undoubtedly go further in the change, to be even more radical in our methods, in our ways of doing things, in our style," to "go after the will of change of the French," We were put in power, "Griveaux added to reporters.
On December 10, 2018, after weeks of increasingly violent protests, President Emmanuel Macron announced a series of social measures, such as the 100% increase in the minimum wage and the organization of an extensive national consultation aimed at bringing the French back to policy makers.
However, in his New Year's speech, Macron seemed more determined to regain control of its mandate and to revive its reforms, many of which had been rejected by the French, such as unemployment benefits and the reform system.
The levels of approval of the president and his executive are at their lowest level, which does not promise much success for these measures, both politically and socially.
Government of apprehension
Although seemingly losing strength, the "yellow vests" manage to keep the French government in the defense.
On Friday, the Minister of Transport, Elisabeth Borne, called for "commercial gestures" for companies that manage motorways in favor of motorists, given the increase in the number of tolls scheduled for the 1st February.
At a meeting devoted to the protest of "yellow jackets" that lasted for seven weeks, the minister "invited the dealers to listen to the strong expectations expressed in favor of the power of purchase and to make proposals, as part of its tariff and trade policies, "said his office, noting that the first clues had already been taken into account, especially for ordinary toll users traveling to their workplace and at home.
Dealers were among the companies most affected by the "yellow vests" protests, with losses due to the "toll free" operation and several harms.
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