Paris, France, Migrants Demonstration Against "Unrepresentative" French Presidential Elections, Men Holding Protest Signs, Street "Elections are for Idiots!"
"Some 300 activists, police said, the movement of indignant or ordinary citizens, who came from Ile de France but also on foot, Toulouse, Bayonne, Marseille, Lille, and Angers, came together Saturday in Paris to denounce a "sham election". The sound of drums, the "marches" parts between March 3 (Marseille) and April 7 (Angers), have converged to Paris to ask, on the eve of the first round of the presidential election, "a real democracy "because" the current candidates do not represent us, "said Yannick, 27, who does not wish to give his name and came walking from Bayonne. "Among the candidates, there is never the candidate I want. And I'm not alone in thinking this," he said. "For us to reorganize ourselves, at least locally, with democratic assemblies, we heard and develop alternative ideas on the environment, health, education, food," adds he confessed that even if it is not satisfied, he will vote anyway, by proxy, "for one candidate over the left and rather close to environmental issues". Gathered at the Fontaine des Innocents of Les Halles (First District), behind banners that read "indignant you!", The protesters complained, like Arthur, 26, of Toulouse, that "in the panel of candidates, there has ideas and alternatives that we do not offer, such as reducing productivism". He said among the protesters, "some will not vote, others will vote blank or invalid, or perhaps for a candidate who says anti-capitalist", he adds, smiling. "Politicians are the financial expectations, no expectations, and decisions are taken at European level, far from us," lamented Maryline, 38, of Paris. The protesters were then to go to the Champ de Mars (VII), where they hope to remain until May 12, international day of action for all "moral outrage", a year after the start of the Spanish movement. They plan to hold by then popular assemblies or symbolic actions against banks or supermarkets in Paris." (Liberation)
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