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The parallelism between the current protests in France and May 68

The French are on the streets once again, but this time, the young are significantly more involved and more determined than ever. For them, it is not just about the reform of the pension system. What is at stake is the democracy of this country, and, they say, its future.

“I think the government is afraid of the youth because of their ability to organize and be present everywhere all the time, to overwhelm, and that is clearly our goal. We want to overwhelm those who want to suppress us, those who want to impose negotiations and compromises on us. We want to overwhelm to achieve a change in society”, says Mathis, a 23-year-old Physics student.

Parallelism with May 68

“It is essential that the youth come together to unlock the radicalism of this movement, which allows us to mobilize every day until the reform is eliminated. And we see that youth have that role to play. It’s what happened in 1968 and now it’s happening again.”says Yuri, a 22-year-old student of Mathematics and Computer Science.

_“A parallel can be drawn with May 68 because in 1968 we had an old president, de Gaulle, who mattered to an older generation but not to the younger generation. And the same goes for Emmanuel Macron: he is the president of the old, he was elected by the old. Deep down, he does not speak to the youth._ And the young generations do not govern, which is distant and authoritarian. They want more closeness, more kindness and kindness, which they don’t have with this president,” explains Philippe Moreau Chevrolet, political analyst, founder and CEO of MCBG Consulting Agency.

_”The parallel that we can make with May 1968 is that we went from a social crisis -a crisis that was based on the problem of retirement benefits- to a political crisis, a democratic crisis._Emmanuel Macron’s problem is that he communicates like a young man, but governs like an old man, with the old. In the end, the young people have understood that he is neither an environmentalist, nor sensitive to his problems, nor really empathetic. All of that is a lie”Add.

Source: Euronews Español

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