{"id":9488,"date":"2018-12-20T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evaggelatos.com\/?p=9488"},"modified":"2018-12-20T17:57:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:57:59","slug":"%ce%ba%ce%af%cf%84%cf%81%ce%b9%ce%bd%ce%b1-%ce%b3%ce%b9%ce%bb%ce%ad%ce%ba%ce%b1-%ce%b3%ce%bf%ce%bd%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%b5%ce%af%cf%83%cf%84%ce%b5-%cf%84%ce%bf%ce%bd-%ce%ba%ce%b5%cf%87%cf%81%ce%b9%cf%83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evaggelatos.com\/?p=9488","title":{"rendered":"\u039a\u03af\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03bd\u03b1 \u03b3\u03b9\u03bb\u03ad\u03ba\u03b1: \u0393\u03bf\u03bd\u03b1\u03c4\u03b5\u03af\u03c3\u03c4\u03b5 \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03ba\u03b5\u03c7\u03c1\u03b9\u03c3\u03bc\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf \u03c4\u03c9\u03bd Rothchild Emmanuel Macron. M\u03ad\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 15\u03bf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Now it’s personal: What the yellow vests want is Macron on his knees<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t“Macron get lost!” (\u039c\u03b1\u03ba\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd \u03c7\u03ac\u03c3\u03bf\u03c5) – reads the graffiti in Paris. Photo: AFP\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\t\t\t\tBen McPartland\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tben.mcpartland@thelocal.com<\/a>
@mcpben<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t5 December 2018: French President Emmanuel Macron has backed down and cancelled fuel tax hikes in a bid to quell the growing violence, but it may not be enough, because the one thing that unites the protesters and the rioters is their hatred of their president. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tThe French President Emanuel Macron made a move on Tuesday that must \nhave been a painful one for him – he backed down in the face of pressure\n from the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tHe might have resisted similar pressure from unions, students and train\n workers over unpopular reforms but the transformation of one of the \nposhest parts of Paris from luxury shopping quarter to war zone on \nSaturday appears to have forced the president to crack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tWisely so, many seem to think, not least the city’s police force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tMacron’s PM Edouard Philippe -pushed to the front line – announced on Tuesday that the planned January hike in fuel taxes<\/a> – the measure that had sparked the yellow vest movement three weeks ago – would be suspended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tWith social media pages suggesting thousands more angry protesters are \nready to descend on Paris for more of the same, the French government, \nParisians living in the west of the city and police will be desperately \nhoping the climbdown calms some of the anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tBut it may not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tThe protest movement may have began as a gripe against fuel prices but \nit has spread well beyond that to the point where it is hard to work out\n exactly what it wants to achieve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tThe problem the government and the police have is that the one thing \nthat really unites the disparate group of rioters who caused carnage in \nParis at the weekend is their personal hatred of the president.\n\tA head of state they disparagingly call the “president of the rich” who\n yellow vest protesters, and the extremists that have joined their \nranks, believe represents only those who live in the kind of areas left \ndevastated by Saturday’s wanton violence.\tR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\tLong-hated by the extreme-leftist groups because of his past as a \nbanker and his adherence to the free-market model, detested by the \nfar-right because of his pro-European, globalist beliefs and now hated \nby many ordinary French people, who see him as arrogant, aloof and \nunsympathetic to their problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tThe one slogan that has been chanted in Paris by large numbers of \nprotesters wasn’t about fuel taxes or any kind of tax, it was simply \n“Macron demission” (Macron resign).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tMuch of the graffiti daubed on the Arc de Triomphe and indeed on town halls and prefectures around France<\/a> carried the same message as did the banners carried by protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\t“Macron stop taking us for idiots,” read the banner carried by peaceful protesters on the Champs-Elys\u00e9es on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\tThat message was echoed by many interviews given by angry protesters to\n French TV stations. They believe the French president holds them in \ncontempt and blame him personally for the outpouring of anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tIt would be wrong to blame the president for the seeds of the revolt – \n50 percent of French voters rejected mainstream or centrist political \nparties in the first round of last year’s election. Their grievances \ndate a lot longer than his presidency but Macron has become the \nembodiment of much of their anger and hatred. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tIn a country that has a long and much talked-about distrust and even contempt of the most wealthy<\/a>\n Macron’s previous life as a Rothschild banker was always likely to \nweigh heavy on his shoulders. For some, Macron is still “the banker” and\n his past still clouds everything the president does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tBut the president hasn’t helped himself once in power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tIn an article on the clash between Macron and the yellow vests<\/a>,\n Professor Arnaud Mercier from the French Institute of the Press (IFP) \npointed to Macron’s loose tongue when talking to the French public or \nabout them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\t“Since his election he has broken the thread of confidence on this \npoint by multiplying the little murderous sentences towards the French \npeople who were taken by so many as marks of humiliation towards those \nwho are struggling.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tThe president has frequently drawn anger whether it was for calling the\n French “Gauls resistant to change”, or referring to people as those \n“who are successful” and “those who are nothing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tHe criticized striking workers at a doomed car plant “for stirring up \nshit” and suggested they’d be better off looking for a job. He has \ndismissed opponents to his labour reforms by calling them “the lazy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tHe famously rebuked a schoolboy for calling him “Manu” and told a \nunemployed gardener he would get a job if he just “crossed the street” \nwith him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\tProtesters have used these ill-thought out and clumsy phrases during \nthe recent violent protests to make the president “swallow his words”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\t“OK Manu, we’ll cross the street,” read graffiti on Avenue Kleber, which was the scene of violent clashes on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\t“The graffiti on the walls, the slogans written on the yellow vests and\n the banners testify to a strong desire (among the protesters) for \nsocial revenge, a return to sender of these phrases considered \ninsulting,” writes Professor Mercier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\t“The situation seems totally blocked, because those offended consider \nthat such phrases are the expression of a class arrogance and they only \ndream of making him swallow his words.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\t“No apology can erase the insult,” said Mercier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tMacron has tried to apologise, accepting “his failure to reconcile the \nFrench people with their leaders” and accepted his frank-talking manner \nmight not appeal to all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tAnd part of Macron’s problem, according to French historian Jean Garrigues<\/a>, lies with the way modern politicians are consumed  “as a product whose obsolescence is programmed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\t“Voters no longer believe in ideologies, they consume and then reject \ntheir elected representatives, including the President of the Republic,”\n he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tMacron has taken measures to improve the spending power of lower-middle\n classes by scrapping the taxe d’habitation (council tax) and certain \nsocial charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tBut it is his reforming of France’s ISF wealth tax – “a gift to the \nrich” – that those on streets in Paris remember most as well as his insistence, up until now at east, not to scrap fuel tax hikes <\/a>aimed at persuading the hard-up French to switch to electric cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tWhile it would be wrong to blame Macron – who let’s not forget has only\n been in power 18 months – for the inequalities and struggles that have \nfed the violence, the former Rothschild banker has become the focal \npoint of their hatred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tSome politicians and academics also lay the blame squarely at his feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\tLeftist deputy Fran\u00e7ois Ruffin, who famously clashed with Macron in the\n car park of a whirlpool factory during the election campaign called for\n Macron to quit before he leaves the country “mad with rage.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\t“The pride of the President of the Republic, his deafness, his \nobstinacy, his lack of concession are a machine of hatred,” said Ruffin,\n before coming under fire for suggesting the head of state “would end up\n like Kennedy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\tSuch is the hatred that the “yellow vests” may not be easily calmed. While they might not get Macron’s head, they at least want him on his knees<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now it’s personal: What the yellow vests want is Macron on his knees “Macron get lost!” (\u039c\u03b1\u03ba\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd \u03c7\u03ac\u03c3\u03bf\u03c5) – reads the graffiti in Paris. Photo: AFP Ben McPartland ben.mcpartland@thelocal.com@mcpben 5 December 2018: French President Emmanuel Macron has backed down and cancelled fuel tax hikes in a bid to quell the growing violence, but it may … <\/p>\n

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