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182. Riots in France: Not Just About Pension Reforms

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The French President's Reform of the French Constitution

I think like, fascistic is a strong way to put it. I wouldn't agree with that. But what I would agree with is it is without a doubt authoritarian the way that Macron has handled this. He's essentially ignored his own cabinet. He's obviously ignored the people and pushed this law through in the middle of the night. It sounds fucked up. What maybe explain to us how was Macron actually done this? And so that was on the 10th of January. That's when they first said, okay, we're going to do this. And then the reform was approved by Council of Ministers. And then there was the strikes that started already in January, beginning of January.

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