In France, left-wing parties and organizations protested Saturday against president Emmanuel Macron and the new prime minister Michel Barnier. Demonstrators mobilized as of 2 p.m. in the afternoon throughout several cities in France, denouncing what they consider to be an overly conservative government. They are calling for the resignation of president Macron, and voiced their rejection of the new cabinet.
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00:00Welcome back.
00:01In France, left-wing parties and organizations protested Saturday against President Emmanuel
00:05Macron and new Prime Minister Michel Barnier.
00:08Demonstrators mobilized as of 2 p.m. in the afternoon throughout several cities in France,
00:12denouncing what they consider to be an overly conservative government.
00:15They are calling for the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron and voiced their rejection
00:20of the new cabinet.
00:21Social organizations have expressed their concern about policies that the new government
00:25could be implementing on immigration and civil rights, given the names included in a leaked
00:29list of ministerial candidates to be appointed by Barnier in the coming hours.
00:40Elections have been held and those WHO govern afterwards are those WHO lost.
00:46This has no equivalent in any democratic regime in the world.
00:49Therefore, it is not by stirring up the surface of things, by inventing a mister.
00:55Barnier and having fun for several days with the ACT of the composition of a government
01:00will not make US forget the starting point.
01:03The starting point is that the left won the election.
01:06It's up to them to form a government and propose a program.
01:13Mr. Barnier has no future.
01:15His promised fate is that he will be defeated in the National Assembly, probably over his
01:20draft budget, and that he will fall to a motion of censure if those WHO call themselves the
01:25opposition continue to be so.
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