As early as spring 2019, Emmanuel Macron affirmed it: after six months of mobilization, the "yellow vests" had "no
longer a political outlet"
.
"
We have done our part of the job, I think that now everyone has to vote, stand for election, and it is much more difficult to propose a project than to be against everything else
", he declared then. .
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Less than 50 days from the final deadline, the predictions of the Head of State seem to be confirmed.
While this citizen momentum on an unprecedented scale has marked the French landscape, it has not turned into a living and influential force in the political debate.
On the contrary.
Where the presidential candidates try to embody this France of roundabouts to better woo it, the architects of this movement are more scattered than ever.
Many have abandoned the fight, others are trying at all costs to make it exist through more individual initiatives, while some have simply given up by rallying together...
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