A fan to the accordion, a truck driver and a cosmetics saleswoman.
They are some makers behind “Yellow Jackets”, the movement that put in check the Government of Emmanuel Macron in what is considered the worst institutional crisis since he came to power in France less than two years ago.
Their protests began by the announcement of the French Executive that would raise the tax to fuel.
Last Saturday, revolts in Paris left a trail of burned vehicles, graffiti and shop windows broken in the Champs-Elysées, one of the most iconic streets of the city.
And this week they got their first major victory.
On Tuesday, the French Government approved a moratorium on the application of this rate which, as expected, should enter into force on January 1.
But a day later, the French Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, announced that the measure was cancelled and that an increase in taxes had eliminated the budget bill for 2019.
“Yellow Jackets” in France: the protest that led to Emmanuel Macron to cancel the rise in the price of fuels gilets jaunes (yellow vests, in French) are defined as a cross movement and no visible heads.
But, despite not wanting to identify any leader, two of its most prominent members attended this Tuesday at a meeting with the Minister of French ecological transition, François de Rugy.
Who are the Yellow Jackets of France and are protestandoEstos are three of the most recognizable leaders of the movement of the “Yellow Jackets”.
Priscillia Ludosky: the first “online” petition is one of the most visible faces in the French media as a leader of the movement. He is 32 years old and lives in Savigny-le-Temple, 40 kilometres from Paris.
Last may, launched a petition on the platform online LudoskyChange.org that could be considered the start of the protest.
Your personal situation, like that of so many others in France, is an autonomous seller you need the car to go to work.
Image captionLa Ludosky request is the most signed at Change.org since the opening of the platform in France in beginning of year 2012A, saw that their gasoline expenses had soared from 45 to €70 ($51-79) per month. As a vendor specializing in cosmetic bio and aromatherapy, accounts not meshed him.
Looking for a solution was given account that price could be lower, providing relief into the pockets of citizens, if the Government agreed to reduce taxes.
It was then when I decided to seek support from other “anonymous drivers” like her for just “a drop in prices at gas stations”.
“According to the French industries of petroleum Union (UFIP), diesel still should increase in 34 cents during the mandate of Emmanuel Macron”, he warned then.
France: images of the violent protests in Paris that left 19 injured in a few days, your request on the platform reached 300,000 signatures, but now already more than 1.5 million citizens who demand the same.
In fact, is the request more signed since the opening of the platformChange.org in France in 2012.
Éric Drouet: the first protest of the truth is that without Drouet, a 33 year old truck driver, probably the Ludosky initiative would not have reached this relevance.
Father of a girl from amateur to modify the appearance of automobiles (tuning), and two years shared the request of Change.org on your Facebook wall after watching the published in the journal La République of the French Department of Seine- et -Marne, where he and Ludosky live.
Image captionDrouet (in the center of this picture-by Ludosky, at a meeting on Tuesday at the Ministry of ecological transition) convened the first day of protests on Facebook. On 17 November, Drouet organized the first day of mobilization along with the Association of conductors to which it belongs. He decided to contact Ludosky and it was then when was born the movement of “Yellow Jackets”.
“Often, we come together (the Group of drivers) to manage together.” “The initial idea that November 17 was to organize a trip by on the highway from Paris ring road, but then decided to do it to denounce elaumento of prices”, Brouet told the radio station France Info.
French media consider this call through social networks as the precursor of all the protests.
Jacline Mouraud: Jacline Mouraud, 51-year-old viral video, shot to fame when he starred in a video denouncing the increase in fuel prices and other challenges faced by motorists.
The video of this woman, who lives in the French Department of Morbihan in Brittany, received more than six million visitors.
Mouraud, fond of the accordion, occasional firefighter and mother of three, as a large majority of people who make up this group are people class average living in remote or rural areas and who need a truck to move.
“We live in villages. I do 25,000 kilometres a year. I don’t have another option that go on cart, contaminate or do not contaminate”, says Mouraud in his video that summarizes the origin of the wrath of the”Yellow Jackets”, whose members workers from factories, unemployed, workers are self-employed (especially artisans) or retired.
Image caption “have another option that go on cart, contaminate or do not contaminate”, says Jacline Mouraud in his viral video. Mouraud ensures that she and her family received death threats if he went to the meeting last Tuesday with the authorities.
It is believed that harder in the movement of “Yellow Jackets”, which does not want the protests to be desconvoquen arrive from the wing.
In fact, despite the fact that the Executive announced the suspension of the price increase, the movement threatened to continue protesting Saturday against the Government, so the police will deploy about 90,000 troops in the country.
The own Drouet already made clear their intentions in a televised debate on Wednesday by the chain BFMTV, where he said that his plan Saturday was to reach the Elysee.
“And if we come, we come,” he said.
