Former French President François Hollande has blamed his successor, Emmanuel Macron, for the ongoing riots in France.
“There have been crises in the past… but here, we have a level of anger and resentment that I’ve rarely known,” Hollande remarked.
“In many parts of the population there is this same anger – this feeling that democracy does not work as it should,” he went on to say.and police vehicles now regularly emerging out of France as mass demonstrations against the pension reforms continue. Some on the country’s left have even warned that the violence could yet get worse, with France’s answer to Bernie Sanders, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, warning that there has yet to be“You haven’t seen May 68!” the parliamentarian reportedly said. “You don’t know what a violent demonstration is!”.of a ‘Sixth French Republic’.
The Fifth Republic, created in 1958, has features that suited its creator, strongman Charles De Gaulle, which naturally includes a strong head of state — the president — who has executive powers including the ability to pass laws without a vote. It is this power which has so intensified the recent protests and strikes after it was used to push through the pensions act.
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