Thousands of French protest for Macron’s resignation.
Concerned about the approaching cold season and the possibility of electricity and gas outages, thousands of French protested and demanded the resignation of their country’s president.
Following the request of the right-wing Patriots Party to hold a demonstration against the government of French President Emmanuel Macron, several thousand French protesters gathered in the Place Royale square in Paris and demanded Macron’s resignation.
The Russian news agency Sputnik reported in this regard that after the first anti-government demonstration on September 3rd (12th of Shahrivar month), the French Patriots Party again asked the French people to hold demonstrations against the government. French protesters demanded Macron’s resignation and France’s withdrawal from the European Union and NATO.
Demonstrations against Macron’s government take place while tensions between European countries and Russia have intensified following Moscow’s military operations in Ukraine, and Western sanctions against Russia have had a negative impact on the lives of Europeans.
According to this report, the results of the latest Elabe Institute survey show that support for sanctions against Russia is decreasing among French people, and only 40% of French people wanted restrictive measures against Russia because of the Ukraine war, and 32% French people believe that sanctions against Russia should be limited in order to reduce its effects on the daily life of the people of this European country, and 27% of the respondents stated that they are against sanctions against Russia.
According to Sputnik, since 2021, energy prices in Europe have suddenly increased as part of the global trend, and after the start of Russian military operations in Ukraine in February 2022 and the approval of several European sanctions packages against Moscow, fuel prices increased at a very high speed. has gone and forced many European governments to take emergency measures.
In August, the French parliament approved two packages of emergency measures to protect people’s purchasing power, which took effect on September 1. These packages include the listing of social benefits, the stabilization of electricity and gas prices, an increase in overtime payments to civil servants, and a 30-euro cent discount on fuel from September to October.
Demonstrations against the French government have peaked while the French Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne recently warned the people that if they do not exercise restraint in energy consumption and behave “responsibly”, there is a possibility of electricity and gas cuts in this country.
While tensions between European countries and Russia over the Ukraine war have intensified concerns about energy supply for the green continent, the French Prime Minister announced the government’s plan to increase the price of electricity and gas.
The request of the French Prime Minister to the people to use energy “responsibly” was made while Paris, in line with Washington, imposed severe sanctions against Russia and at the same time is providing all kinds of economic aid and weapons to Ukraine.
