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Yellow Jackets protesters announce candidates for European election
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 23, 2019 04:46pm |
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| Author | Emma Anderson |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 23, 2019 08:20:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Members of France's Yellow Jackets movement announced the first names on a list of candidates to run in May's European Parliament election, according to French media.
The list so far has 10 names and is led by Ingrid Levavasseur, a 31-year-old auxiliary nurse and one of the main figures of the street movement, which began in response to an increase in fuel taxes but has since morphed into a bigger — largely anti-Emmanuel Macron — cause.
The candidates have formed their own group called "Citizens' Initiative Rally" — a reference to one of the main demands of the movement: allowing for a so-called "citizens' initiative referendum," which would let citizens trigger a referendum by collecting 700,000 signatures, or 1.5 percent of registered voters. |
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