According to the Pak Sahafat news agency quoted by Sputnik News Agency, French retirees took to the streets on Thursday to express their anger.
Marc is one of the French retirees who said in an interview with Sputnik: “Increasing pensions, social protection issues and public services are three factors that are worrying retirees.”
Earlier, livelihood problems and injustices stemming from the capitalist system in France had led to the yolk vest movement and massive weekly demonstrations against the government of Emmanuel Macron.
According to an Elable poll, the yolk vest movement is still alive and well, with 55% of French people supporting or sympathizing with the movement.
The Yellow Jackets Movement is a Paris-based protest movement that has spread rapidly to other countries such as Belgium, the Netherlands and Iraq. The protest movement started on Saturday, November 17, 2018, and the yellow vests blocked the roads and caused heavy traffic; Demonstrations that took place in protest of rising fuel prices and taxes continue.
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The protests later escalated into the general policies of Emmanuel Macron’s government, with some calling for his resignation. According to French newspapers, the yellow vests have put the government in front of a crisis that has no historical precedent in France.
The French newspaper Le Parisien recently revealed that Remy Daye, a former deputy leader of the French Democratic Movement, had planned to stage a military coup in France with the help of current and retired police, gendarmerie and army officers, and even a large network throughout country had also created.