Mobilizations are preceded by the fall of the government of François Bayrou and the appointment of Sébastian Leconnu as the new Prime Minister. The appointment of the hitherto Minister of Defense did not please the opposition, who asked for a left government
About 300 people were detained on Wednesday at different points in France, on a day marked by mobilizations of old protest, the French government said.
A new balance of the French Interior Ministry was updated at 1:00 pm (12:00 from Lisbon), on a day marked by more than 150 transport and educational blockages due to the social movement “Let’s block everything!”, Summoned during the summer on social networks, promising to be similar to the “yellow vests” in 2018.
At least four members of the security forces were slightly injured as they followed the guidelines of the French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau to quickly intervene and try to prevent the protesters of the movement, BFMTV television chain reported.
For the French Interior Minister, these are “unacceptable blocks,” as they imply taking citizens “hostages” of claims.
“Mobilization is not a citizen mobilization. It was monopolized by the far left,” he told journalists Retailleau, referring to the support position of the France Insubmissa Party (LFI, radical left).
The former LFI presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused Retailleau of encouraging “the provocations”, so he asked protesters prudence and surveillance before police actions on social network X.
Authorities estimated that about 100,000 people would join the protests, so they prepared a security device of about 80,000 police and Gendarmes in Paris and the metropolitan region of the French capital.
Hundreds of protest actions were foreseen in large and small towns, including road blocks.
The Directorate-General of French Civil Aviation (DGAC) predicted disturbances and delays “in all French airports”.
The mobilizations are preceded by, which lost a motion of trust in Parliament, and by Sébastian Leconnu, as a new prime minister on Tuesday night, in a maneuver of France President Emmanuel Macron, who did not please opposition.
LFI’s national coordinator, Manuel Bompard, has already announced that the party will promote a motion of censorship, following a nomination that also did not please the other extreme of the political spectrum, where the National Union (RN, French) is located.
The leader of the French Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, proposed to Leconnu to resign Article 49.3 of the Constitution to carry out his proposals without the need to be subjected to vote in the National Assembly (Baixa Chamber of the French Parliament).
“It would be the demonstration that the method changes,” said Faure, who in an interview with Franceinfo radio asked to break with the policy of recent years.
Sébastien Leconnu is the fourth prime minister in just 12 months after Gabriel Attal (2024), Michel Barnier (2024) and Bayrou (2024-2025), and will have to deal with a new movement of strikes and stoppages, organized by the unions and supported by the left parties in nine days, while trying to compose the future government that is not censored at least by PS and approve a state budget and approve of the state budget for 2026.
