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Could protesters bring down France's government?

Podcast: Could It Though? · Garry "Gazza"

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

It started with a few high school kids in the suburbs of Paris. No teacher for six months. Three weeks later, 550,000 people were marching across France, and a historic town hall had burned. So could protesters actually bring down France’s government? We look at how easy it is to sack a French prime minister (France lost three in under a year), why the president is almost untouchable, and the rule that says once 3.5% of a country hits the streets, governments almost never survive. Then the history: the Bastille, May 1968, the yellow vests, the pension ma...