On Tuesday, she wanted to talk to each other, but now the representatives of the yellow West should have cancelled the talks with the government in the short term. The gap between the people and the government grows.
Yellow vests in front of the Prefecture in Le Puy-en-Velay on July 17. November (Archive)
He is still under the impression of the dramatic events of Saturday, but his words to the Public, the prefect chose Wisely: “It was the will of the protesters, to kill people,” said Yves Rousset, in the Department of Haute-Loire of the French Central government is represented.
Angry yellow West at the weekend, his workplace, the Prefecture in the peaceful pilgrimage of Le Puy-en-Velay, down town burned. Ten to twelve kilograms heavy paving stones were thrown, angry protesters through the Windows and Molotov cocktails thrown at the building. The horror of the enthemmte violence in the pilgrimage city, considered to be the heart of Catholic France, is large. More than five hundred kilometers to the South of Paris, the political shock waves from the capital, usually are not felt.
Schools as a next destination?
However, these days a lot is different. With a high rate of speed has spread in a largely uncoordinated wave of protest all over the country. From Brest to Strasbourg, from Lille to Marseille, protesters block road tolls, roads, and fuel depots or gather for marches, with their yellow safety vests to protest. And the movement could pick up momentum. On Monday morning, of Yellow Western-backed protesters blocked 100 schools across the country – to Protest against the education policy of the government.
Protester of the yellow vests in front of the Arc de Triomphe, which was damaged in the riots strongly
A race to the government by the time the French press muses, meanwhile. As Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe and his Ministers face a difficult task: you need to show hardness and willingness to engage in dialogue. Two weekends in a row, the Mob was raging so uncontrollably through the capital and provincial cities, that tourists from the civil war to speak in similar conditions. For the since one and a half months, acting Minister of the interior, Christoph Castaner that is a political revelation. He needs to stop with its already overburdened police force a third the chaos of the weekend under any circumstances.
Even if the basic support for the yellow West, the population is very large – that extremists of the left and Right of the protests to violent Attacks that have used puffs in the people a broad refusal.
Anger at the Establishment
The government, however, must go to the protesters, the success of which have in some cases contradictory, reasons, explains, the Parisian political scientist Emiliano Grossman Sciences Po. There’s the old contrast between the Parisian Bobos – that is, the “Left” committed to the protection of the environment – and the conservative people in the poorer periphery, the feel of the government is neglected. “On the other hand, there are also many people in the country who were upset about this, that Macron has abolished soon after taking office, the property tax – a tax that only the Rich pay,” says Grossman. “And now, the diesel tax is to be increased, all of which have to pay.” Today, French from the left and right of the spectrum from the Paris Establishment, did not feel represented.
Political scientist Emiliano Grossman of the Paris Sciences Po
Basically Macron is now where it was launched at the beginning of his presidency, 24 percent of the voters had given him in the first round, your voice. On a much larger base, he can’t support even one and a half years after his election.
Even abroad, people observed the test for the President with power. “You should not exaggerate too much, but when abroad the impression that this President doesn’t have his country properly in the handle, then the colors, of course, the credibility and enforcement ability on the international stage”, says Henrik development assistance and humanitarian action from the German-French Institute in Ludwigsburg.
Pressure for change by the street
What makes the situation politically so complicated: The political mediation institutions are, to a large extent: the trade unions and the once-dominant parties are in a deep crisis. The socialists and conservative Republicans do not have is also one and a half years after its disastrous election defeat in the presidential and parliamentary elections.
The focus of the criticism: the President of Macron (m) and Minister of the interior Castaner (2. v. r.)
And also to the party of the President, it is not ordered well. At the weekend La République en Marche selected “” with Stanislas Guerini a new Chairman. The 36-year-old politician is regarded as a Confidant of the President, is in the population, however, are largely unknown. “This movement has no own profile, and you have not managed to structure themselves in a way that you are Macron, as a friendly, but also critical Partner to the side, and the Concerns and demands from the population can absorb,” development assistance and humanitarian action. From this perspective, the road appears as the only correction instance, the seemingly omnipotent President who wants to stick to its course of Reform, but also concessions.
Political scientist Henrik development assistance and humanitarian action from the German-French Institute in Ludwigsburg
Relaxation is not in sight
However, the demands of the street are uncoordinated and sometimes contradictory. Had started the movement as a Protest against the increase in the Diesel and gasoline tax. But there is more to it: A resignation Macrons, elections, or the issue of purchasing power increase are now on the banners of the movement, which is currently trying to get a structure. “One of the demands you will probably come back, is the increase in the minimum wage – with the macro results in economically probably no great sense,” predicts political scientist Grossman. But the political dynamics in Paris these days is difficult to predict.
In the Pilgrim city of Le Puy-en-Velay, the cleanup to run, meanwhile work. Twelve people were arrested in the course of the riots provisionally fixed 18 police officers injured. And the fear that the protests flare up again. So fast you will not come here to rest.
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