According to The Telegraph, protests in France have topped 500,000 people, plunging President Emmanuel Macron into a deep political crisis and weakening his position. The paper notes that Macron has just six months left in office and asks whether a divided nation will have the patience to wait for his successor. The protests began in late September with high school students in the Ile-de-France region over education issues, then spread nationwide and drew in farmers, climate activists and former “yellow vest” participants. The paper also criticized Macron's pledge to track down and punish those responsible for violence, while citing Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, who called the protests the “suicide of Western civilization.”
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