Eight police officers injured and 45 arrests made in Paris after protests on fringes turn violent
, is under pressure to govern differently in his second-term –– with less top-down decision-making and a more participative, decentralised approach, in which citizens would have more input., where workers intend to weigh heavily on all the big issues,” said Benoît Teste, head of the FSU teachers’ union. “It’s a crucial moment to feel the mood on the ground and set the tone.”
This is seen as crucial if he is to secure a broad centrist majority in the parliamentary elections in June that would give him a free hand to implement his policies of overhauling the welfare state and pensions system. The parliament vote has been seized upon by both the far-right Le Pen and the radical-left’s, who are seeking to greatly increase their seats in a France where voters are divided and disappointed with politics.
Macron has promised his second term would be devoted to tackling the climate emergency, after admitting environmental policy must be speeded up. But an Elabe poll after Macron’s presidential win on 24 April found 57% of people didn’t believe he would make the environment his top priority.
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