Macron to meet student groups: Where are Franceโs protests heading?
President to meet for first time with student representatives on Friday before further protests.
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President to meet for first time with student representatives on Friday before further protests.
Tens of thousands of people joined rallies across France on Tuesday to support protesting high school students demanding better conditions in a major challenge to President Emmanuel Macron as his term winds down. French students say they are determined to press their demands over absent teachers, dilapidated buildings, overcrowded schedules and other grievances. FRANCE 24's Clovis Casali reports from a high school in central Paris.
Tens of thousands of people joined rallies across France on Tuesday to support protesting high school students, boosting a movement that poses a major challenge to President Emmanuel Macron as his term in office winds down. Some 161,500 people turned out, according to the interior ministry -- more than double the 71,500 it gave for the last nationwide demonstrations on Thursday last week. Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Andrew Smith, Lecturer in Liberal Arts at Queen Mary's London, says that France's youth is undergoing "a crisis of hope" which is pushing "the anger and the sense that something has to change".
Mass rallies backing high school protests continue across France, piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron.