Protest in France : Cohn-Bendit: yellow West have strengthened extreme Right-wing

in view of the slowdown in protest of the "yellow West"movement in France, France has called for interior Minister Christophe Castaner, that the remaining protesters to cease their actions. The still from the "Gilets jaunes" occupied a roundabout in the country would have to be cleared, called for Castaner at the weekend. Previously had gone in the protests on Saturday, according to the estimates of the Ministry of interior throughout the country 66.000 "yellow West" on the road – significantly less than the weekend before.

had Previously made, the President of France Emmanuel Macron concessions to the protesters, and, among other things, an additional payment of 100 euros per month for minimum wage-earners from the 1. January, it was announced. The protesting pensioners, Macron had come with the announcement that the controversial increase is to eliminate the social tax CSG for seniors with salaries under € 2000.

According to the view of the previous Green-Europe politician Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the extreme right-wing party, the "Rassemblement National" of the beneficiaries of the last four weeks of ongoing protest of the "yellow vests". "The yellow West, have strengthened the extreme Right," said Cohn-Bendit, the daily mirror. In the meantime, the demonstrators call for people's initiatives is "a solution of Marine Le Pen", the Chairman of the "Rassemblement National", said Cohn-Bendit. According to surveys, the "Rassemblement National" in the European elections next may in the front. According to a survey by the opinion research Institute Ifop from the beginning of December, the "Rassemblement National can capture" 23.5 percent of the votes, while the ruling party of "La République en Marche" comes only to 15 per cent.

popular initiatives to the Parliament, on the part of the deal

Cohn-Bendit described the claim of the "yellow West", in the future, people's initiatives to hold, as the "abolition of parliamentary democracy". Last Saturday the signs were in Paris to see, with the inscription "RIC". "RIC" stands for "référendum d'initiative citoyenne". At the end of November, such people had showed up initiatives for the first Time in a challenge-the catalogue of the "Gilets jaunes". The idea that national referendums on legislative initiatives within one year should be possible, as soon as at least 700,000 supporters for a law project. The Parliament should be involved in the claim, but in the initiation of a bill, are not involved.

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the order Originally called the "yellow West"-movement was caused by the Protest of citizens, especially in the country against a planned Eco-tax on Diesel and petrol. The planned tax hike has exposed the government of Edouard Philippe for the coming year in the meantime.