From rob1cox via Breakingviews, a Saturday outing with France’s gilets jaunes:
PARIS - Techno music from a portable speaker sounded the alarm at 1pm sharp on Saturday, in front of the McDonald’s at Charles de Gaulle airport. Dozens of men and women quickly donned the yellow vests, or gilets jaunes, that have become the uniform of a movement which has for 17 weeks galvanized the French Republic and defied President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
Their work done, most of the gilets jaunes, named after the garb that’s an obligatory staple of every French automobile, dispersed. Many proceeded to central Paris, where protests continued by the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe, that enduring symbol of France’s turn from monarchy to empire to republic, to empire again, and eventually to today’s Fifth Republic. The yellow vests want to usher in a sixth by way of a citizens’ referendum.
No wonder Macron is struggling to defuse the unrest and keep liberalising the economy. Having ignored the first rumblings over the fuel tariffs, the French leader was caught off guard not simply by the force of the protests every Saturday, but by high approval ratings for the gilets jaunes: as much as double his own lowly standings.
Yet Macron could ask the same question of the yellow vests without receiving a clear answer. What began as a specific set of complaints from motorists in the countryside has mutated into a catch-all for France’s grievances, which sometimes cross party political divides.
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