Demonstrations: Protests in France – difficult start for new premier

One day after the appointment of a new prime minister, France expects further protests. The whole country is to be blocked with the demonstrations that are directed against the savings plans that have been announced for a long time. The authorities are also prepared for sabotage campaigns. For the new Premier Sébastien Lecornu, there are now talks with the various political camps in order to get a savings budget for the highly indebted country.

The exact extent of the protests is uncertain. It is also not clear who is behind the call “Bloquons Tout” (let’s block everything). The protest promotions are decentralized, many different pages want to breathe their anger. Among other things, left-wing, yellow vest groups and unions such as those of the railroaders called for protest.

The protests are primarily a reaction to the savings budget proposed by the previous Prime Minister François Bayrou. On Monday, after less than nine months in office in the National Assembly, he lost a question of trust and brought his center-right minority government to fall.

Interior Minister: 80,000 police forces mobilized

The authorities are on alert: Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau announced to mobilize 80,000 police forces and decided to take through blockade actions. Security forces should be in use from the previous evening.

There can be restrictions in everyday life. The French railway announced impairments in regional traffic. The French civil aviation authority DGAC warned that the processes at French airports could also stall. According to French media, there should also be protest in companies and at universities.

The pressure from the street should remain: for September 18, the unions then called on nationwide strikes and rallies against the government’s austerity course. In the meantime, the protests take on the extent of a general strike.

Also Macron in the line of the protests

Emmanuel Macron is also under pressure. The Altlinke party LFI demanded its resignation. With a parliamentary resolution, the right -wing nationals wanted to clear the way for new elections. The fact that Macron appointed a new prime minister a day after the lost question of trust from Bayrou can also be seen as an attempt to get out of the line of fire.

The new Prime Minister and former Defense Minister Lecornu is considered his confidant – it remains to be seen whether the Macron will help. The first reactions of the previous opposition were anything but positive.

The National Assembly has been deeply divided since the parliamentary election last year. Macron’s middle people, Le Pens right national and the left warehouse face each other as three large blocks. None of them have their own majority.

Time is forced to list the household

Lecornu is now supposed to advise the political forces in the National Assembly in order to set up the urgently needed household, it was said to notify the Élysée Palace. Lecornu should also make agreements for the decisions of the coming months. It should be meant that Lecornu probes which parties could be part of a coalition, who could tolerate it or at least be willing to do a common thing on individual topics.

Lecornu is said to have a certain wire for the right -wing management figure Marine Le Pen. He is considered a politician who is tolerated by the bourgeois right and at least no complete rejection in the left camp.

Lecornu turned directly to the people in the country in the evening. He said he understands expectations and knew the difficulties and promised to get to work with humility.