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French Protesters Hang Up Their Yellow Vests
[WSJ] Battered by leadership crisis and flagging support, movement that tested President Emmanuel Macron now faces uncertain future.
To put it more bluntly, the yellow vest movement has fizzled. Here’s hoping the reduction of the intrusive power of the French state they tried to fight for happens anyway.
Shops that once boarded their windows every Saturday, bracing for yellow-vest riots, are humming again. President Emmanuel Macron is rebooting the economic overhauls that once fueled yellow-vest ire. The weekly flood of protesters in Gay Paree has become a trickle.

On Saturday, only 7,000 demonstrators erupted into the streets across the country, according to the French Interior Ministry. That is compared with a quarter million people on Nov. 17 when the movement began as a protest against fuel taxes.

Posted by: trailing wife 2019-06-16
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