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Protesters hold massive rally in Paris in protest against inflation

October 19, 2022
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ABC – Thousands of protesters, including France’s newly crowned Nobel literature laureate, have piled into the streets of Paris in a show of anger against the bite of rising prices and cranking up pressure on the government of President Emmanuel Macron.

The march for wage increases and other demands was organised by left-wing opponents of Macron and lit the fuse on what promises to be an uncomfortable week for his centrist government.

Transport strikes called for Tuesday threaten to dovetail with wage strikes that have already hobbled fuel refineries and depots, sparking chronic gasoline shortages that are fraying nerves among millions of workers and other motorists dependent on their vehicles, with giant lines forming at gas stations.

Macron’s government is also on the defensive in parliament, where it lost its majority in legislative elections in June.

That is making it much harder for his centrist alliance to implement his domestic agenda against strengthened opponents, and parliamentary discussion of the government’s budget plan for next year is proving particularly difficult.

In a firebrand speech to the Paris march, far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon charged that Macron is “fried” and that his leadership is plunging France into “chaos”.

He predicted that Macron’s ministers would have to ram the budget through parliament’s lower house without giving lawmakers a vote — a controversial prospect that provoked loud boos from the crowd.

Organisers claimed that more than 140,000 protesters marched.

Paris police said they didn’t have an immediate estimate for the size of the dense flag-waving crowd that filled squares and streets.

While there were a few outbreaks of vandalism with garbage bins set on fire and bank machines smashed. Riot police kept order.

Demonstrating at Mélenchon’s side was French author Annie Ernaux, who won the Nobel Prize for literature this year.

Mélenchon — twice beaten by Macron in presidential elections — declared the protest “an immense success”.

Organisers called it a “march against the high cost of living and climate inaction”.

As well as calling for massive investment against the climate crisis, they also demanded emergency measures against high prices, including freezes in the costs of energy, essential goods and rents, and for greater taxation of windfall profits.

Lawmaker Christophe Bex of the left-wing party France Insoumise — or France Unbowed — called the march “a demonstration of strength” to show “that another world is finally possible if we are all together and all united”.

Another marcher, retired railway worker Eric Doire, said: “What we want is for everyone to live decently with the purchasing power they had before.”

This article was first published in Khmer Times. All contents and images are copyright to their respective owners and sources.

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