Suzy Elias
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Ulaya inaendelea kushuhudia maandamano ya kupinga Urusi kuwekewa vikwazo hasa sekta ya nishati.
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Tens of thousands of people have protested in Paris against the high cost of living and for a more decisive fight against climate change. But is it the beginning of a wider movement against President Macron's policies?
On Sunday afternoon, thousands of protesters gathered at the Place de la Nation in northeastern Paris waving signs labeled "Stop Tax Evasion" and "I want a 52% Pay Rise Just Like the CEO of Total."
The demonstrators were hoping the march against rising living costs and government inaction on climate change would mark the beginning of a nationwide protest movement.
Some analysts also think it could be the start of something much bigger and more widespread.
"We want to fight against government policies — they only ever take away money from the poorest," one man wearing a denim jacket and a yellow scarf was yelling into a microphone from the cargo area of a small truck.
"Yes," the crowd in front of him replied.
"We will participate in every action to resist against these unfair policies," Vincent Gay, the man on the truck, told DW shortly after. The 46-year-old member of Attac, an NGO fighting for social and environmental justice, added that his group was in favor of higher salaries, freezing prices for certain basic goods and decisive action against climate change.
