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He (Barnier) has no social conscience and will constitute a government which will be in the same line as the previous ones. So that is enough now,
civil servant Jeanne Schmitt, 45, told Reuters on the sidelines of the Paris march Democracy is not only the art of knowing how to accept victory, but the humility to accept defeat,
Jean-Luc Melenchon, head of the far-left France Unbowed party (LFI), told protesters at the start of the march in eastern Paris Without carrying out miracles, we can make improvements,
Barnier, who lacks a clear majority, told reporters I am under the surveillance of all French people,
he said on the sidelines of a visit to the Necker Children's Hospital in Paris Demonstrating is my only way of saying that I don't agree, even if I am well aware that it is useless,
I am still young, I want to believe that we can change things,
Expressing one's vote will be useless as long as Macron is in power,
Democracy isn't just the art of accepting that you've won, it's also the humility of accepting that you've lost,
This is a man who has never been excessive in the way he has spoken about the RN or wanted to ban it,
said party leader Marine Le Pen Mr. Barnier is a prime minister under the surveillance of a party which is now unignorable in the parliamentary and democratic game: the National Rally. The reality is that nothing can be done now without us."
Jordan Bardella, who was the RN's candidate for prime minister after the first round of voting, said Where is my vote?"
At Place de la Bastille, a square where the Bastille prison once stood, some protesters carried placards reading The French people are in rebellion, they have entered into revolution,
said Jean-Luc Mélenchon, head of the hard-left La France Insoumise or "France Unbowed" or LFI, the largest party in the NFP alliance The Fifth Republic is collapsing,
said protester Manon Bonijol Macron and the business establishment is increasingly concerned about the upcoming budget deadline,
They say that Macron opened the door for the far right to be more powerful than ever in France’s political landscape,
There will be no pause, no truce. I call you to a long-term battle,
The people have been ignored,
a rally speaker told the crowd Barnier is not a centrist. He’s always been part of the Conservative Party,
It shows the alliance that Macron wants to form since it will be with the far right that he is choosing to govern,
He’s a staple in French politics. He’s been around long enough that we can criticise things he did in the ’80s, which on one hand doesn’t feel fair, but on the other, that’s the lifecycle of politics,
Diane de Vignemont, a French journalist focused on politics and history, told Al Jazeera