New rallies are planned for September 21 at the initiative of several student, feminist and ecological organizations to denounce a “denial of democracy” following the arrival at Matignon of the republican Michel Barnier.
A week after the September 7 rallies initiated by several left-wing and youth organizations, a new call to demonstrate was launched by some unions as well as by student, environmentalist and feminist organizations “against the policy of the Macron-Barnier government”. This second day of demonstrations, since the start of the school year, is planned for September 21, in Paris and throughout France to denounce “a denial of democracy”.
For the Student Union, the Union Syndicale et Lycéenne, Greenpeace France, as well as the Young Antifascist Guard, Attac France, Action Justice Climat, Family Planning, the National Collective for Women’s Rights (CNDF) and Nous Toutes, who are behind the call to demonstrate, Emmanuel Macron has chosen to appoint “a hard-right, anti-social, anti-migrant Prime Minister with a homophobic past who will only be able to govern with the permanent agreement of Marine Le Pen”. The marches planned throughout France on September 21 will be for salaries, pensions, living and study conditions, climate issues as well as the rights of women, LGBT+ people and migrants, the various organizations detailed in a press release on X.
A new gathering in October
After September 21, a new day of demonstration is already planned for October 1 at the initiative of the inter-union. This date marks the beginning of discussions on the State budget and that of Social Security in the National Assembly. In a press release dated September 12, the “union and youth organizations call for demonstrations and strikes so that finally the social emergencies, expressed in the mobilizations as in the ballot boxes, are heard.”
At the end of August, La France Insoumise had launched a call for a rally throughout the country, considering that the president was putting “democracy in serious danger by refusing the result of the ballot boxes and a New Popular Front government”. Like the Socialist Party, the CGT had not responded to the call of the Insoumis, preferring to postpone its return to school until later.