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TIME TO GO: Emmanuel Macron
FRENCH left-wing leader Jean-Luc Melenchon called for President Emmanuel Macron to resign and call a general election today, branding the anti-government protests sweeping the country a “revolution.”
One person died after being hit by a car and police said they made more than 300 arrests during Saturday’s protests in Paris and elsewhere.
Calls for Mr Macron to resign are growing as more sectors of French society join the demonstrations, which were prompted by the introduction of an environmental tax causing a rise in fuel prices.
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation