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The leftist alliance secured a shock victory in France’s snap elections, which Macron known as after the far proper’s triumph within the European elections in June. Despite ending first, nonetheless, the New Popular Front fell far wanting an absolute majority.
The French Greens, the Communists and Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s France Unbowed motion all known as on their supporters to affix the protests. The Socialist Party is the one one of many alliance’s 4 predominant members that selected to not take part.
At the pinnacle of the Parisian procession, Melenchon spoke passionately, declaring that “the French individuals are in revolt. They have entered into revolution.”
“There might be no pause, no truce. I name you to a long-term battle,” he added.
Several of the organizers claimed the spectacular variety of 160,000 protesters in Paris on Saturday, with a complete of 300,000 in all of France. But Paris authorities estimated that solely 26,000 demonstrators marched within the French capital. The each day Le Monde identified that police and organizers have completely different strategies of counting the variety of members, saying the margin of error, in accordance with an organization utilizing cameras, could possibly be as excessive as 30 % to 40 %.
All 4 left-wing forces throughout the New Popular Front, which management 193 of the 577 seats within the French National Assembly, have introduced plans to vote for a movement of no confidence towards Barnier’s authorities.
