This week the Yellow Vests scored their biggest victory yet, by forcing parliamentarians to accept a referendum on Macron's attempt to denationalize the airports of Paris.
A column here about stopping the Yellow Vests stopping of denationalization, and why you never hear that word.
Last week I paid 9 euros to travel for about 15 minutes of travel on a privatized French highway - this is why Yellow Vests demolish tollbooths. Aren't air tickets costly enough already?
May 11 - France bans rural protests for Yellow Vest #26
Many French media gleefully speculated that the Yellow Vest movement was finished, but 60,000 protesters turned out yet again, despite the government's efforts to intimidate people in both urban and rural areas.
May 15 - 72196 - Macron at 2 years: 76% policy rejection
A recent poll covered 14 vital questions and sectors, ranging from economics to immigration to security and more. Respondents gave Macron a whopping 76% failure rate on society's most important questions.
So 24% of respondents support Macron, which was his exact score in the first round of the 2017 presidential elections.
This 24% was also his true score in his victorious second round, due to the highest abstention in 40 years, and the fact that 43% of voters only voted for Macron to block the far-right's Marine Le Pen. He only won a majority in 2 of France's 101 departments, after all.
But Macron and his supporters have always manipulated this to claim that he has a "mandate" for his program, especially the pension junking. Yawn" stupidity is boring, but especially when repeated.
May 25 - Mass arrests as Yellow Vest demos go 'wildcat'
Vesters had been applying for permits" and getting massively repressed. So they went "wildcat-- and got massively repressed.
Yellow Vester says "Ya Hossein!": "We will continue no matter what the results of the (upcoming EU) vote are. There are too many people who have been hurt, blinded, and killed, and we must think of them. All we have ever asked for is not to keep starving at the end of every month, and to protect our children's future."
May 27 - Another loss for Macron as far-right wins EU elections again
We really should care about the EU elections" or focus on a Frexit.
The three Yellow Vest lists combined for less than 1%. Hey, it took Italy's 5-Star Movement eight years to win power.
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