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‘We Need to Unite’: Protests Against the Far Right Are Held Across France
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators crowded onto French streets on Saturday to denounce the rise of the country’s far-right political party and call on fellow citizens to block it from taking power in snap parliamentary elections set by President Emmanuel Macron.
The mostly peaceful protests, organized by the country’s five biggest labor unions, were widely supported by human rights associations, activists, artists and backers of a newly formed left-wing coalition of political parties, the New Popular Front.
As the protests began to wind down, Gabriel Attal, the prime minister and a member of Mr. Macron’s party, announced changes to Renaissance’s platform that mirrored pledges their rivals have put forward to increase spending power for French households.
The demonstrations passed largely without incident, as people of all stripes — students, workers, tech programmers, business executives and soccer players — voiced their determination to stop the rise of the National Rally.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the National Rally, reacted to the vandalism with a post on social media: “Those in the political class who do not condemn the act of demonstrating against the results of an election (actually ransacking, assaulting, burning, attacking the police, etc.)
Back then, left-wing parties came together to form a so-called “Republican front” that asked members to protect the country against the far right and cast their votes for Jacques Chirac, the conservative competitor, even though they disagreed with his policies.
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