What is Yellow Vest 2.0 and what their October 31 protest call means for France and Emmanuel Macron?
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- ✓The Yellow Vest movement called for new demonstrations on October 31 across France.
- ✓Organisers said they want to protest against the authoritarian drift of President Emmanuel Macron.
- ✓A coordinator told journalists, "we will protest for the freedom to protest, and for all our freedoms." Many citizens joined these fresh rallies.
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The Yellow Vest movement in France on Saturday (local time) called for new demonstrations on October 31 as the country continues to reel from protests and sporadic violence. Organisers called for fresh rallies and a sit-in outside parliament and city halls nationwide, condemning the "authoritarian drift" of President Emmanuel Macron and urging citizens to stand up for "public freedoms".
Members of the largely rural-based Yellow Vest movement were angered and refused to comply when Paris police ordered a late change to the authorised route for a union-organised march Saturday, shifting it to the edge of the capital.
Next Saturday, "we will protest for the freedom to protest, and for all our freedoms," a Yellow Vest coordinator told journalists at Paris's Bastille Square, the original departure point for the march.
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