2. What do protesters want now?
Demands include increasing retirees’ pensions, raising the minimum wage, cutting politicians’ salaries and restoring the
wealth tax, which Macron watered down in an effort to keep and attract entrepreneurs to France. There have even been calls for Macron to resign and replace the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, with a “people’s council.” Polls have shown that three-quarters of the French support their demands, even if they also disapprove of the violence that’s accompanied many of the protests. Other groups have joined in, taking advantage of the fraught atmosphere to fight for their own, unrelated causes, including high school students, ambulance drivers and farmers -- many in opposition to Macron’s policies, which are seen as too favorable to businesses and the wealthy.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...low-vests-are-blocking-french-roads-quicktake