Retired French colonel to ST: Macron has no longer any legitimacy to go on with his reform plan

Nearly 31000 people have reportedly joined “Yellow Vest” anti-government protests started on November 17, 2018 in France amid the failure attempts of the French government to contain the crisis by extensive crackdown and mass arrests.

The Syria Times e-newspaper interviewed the French retired colonel Alain Corvez to talk about the goals and causes of the protests and how it will end up.

“The main goals of the protests are against taxes increases but you can guess that it is also against EU, even if it is not express as so,  because everybody knows that French laws are the expression of Brussels technocratic regulations,” the retired colonel said.

He affirmed that French politics do not feel France and the deep roots of French people. They are as oligarchs living in an artificial world seeing EU as the best future for France.

“When Macron said during his election campaign and since he has been elected by a kind of media plot, that he will do his best to accelerate the European construction, he meant he will accelerate destruction of European nations, starting with France, to integrate them in a federal organization, canceling nations sovereignties,” Mr. Corvez stated.

He  described the French government as a ‘technocratic’ one, which is incapable to feel the deep feelings of simple people who have to fight to feed their family every day.

The retired colonel asserted that there is no foreign intervention to start the genuine movement of protestors against a government that does not understand their grievances. But he pointed out that the bandits, black blocks and others could be now supported by foreign organizations like the Muslim Brothers.

He ruled out the involvement of the Soros and comparses because their construction are being attacked.

France’s catastrophic foreign policy

Regarding protestors’ call for the French President Emmanuel Macron’s resignation, the retired colonel made it clear that Mr. Macron has no longer any legitimacy to go on with his reform plan and should therefore leave his armchair.

“80 % of public opinion is against him, even after the exactions and destructions of bandits. It’s a pity because some of his internal reforms were good and necessary,” Mr. Corvez said, criticizing what he described as a ‘catastrophic’ foreign policy of the French president.

“Mr. Macron  thinks that France cannot exists by itself and must be merged in a supranational organization like EU. He already contemplated to share a seat in UN Security Council with EU, that means with Germany and to build up a European Defense, sharing our deterrent nuclear force with Europe,” he added.

The retired colonel concluded by raising the following question: “Whom in Europe would press the button together with us ?”

MSM coverage of protests

As for the mainstream media’s coverage of the protests, Mrs. Monic Jankovic, who is living in Paris, told us that the French state-run media outlets are lost because they are sending a message focused on the violent group and at the same time they are inviting people whose testimonies show up the lack of experience of Mr. Macron as a big part of the responsibility of the crisis.

“The MSM are now predicating the end of Macron despite the fact that they have been totally 100% behind him since the election and they have no choice but to focus on the management of the crisis by police forces,” she added, indicating that the protests will continue until Mr. Macron resigns according to media reports.

 “There are calls for strikes for train company, metro and personal supplies department of police order,” Mrs. Jankovic said, pointing out that the only option for Mr. Macron to stay in power is to shoulder  Prime Minister Édouard Philippe the responsibility and to change him:little to be affirmative, but is a question she is having now about the speech on msm.

Diana Johnstone, an American political writer based in Paris, cleared up on her Face Book page the reason of the use of yellow vests in the protests by saying: “”Every automobile in France is supposed to be equipped with a yellow vest. This is so that in case of accident or breakdown on a highway, the driver can put it on to ensure visibility and avoid getting run over. So the idea of wearing your yellow vest to demonstrate against unpopular government measures caught on quickly. The costume was at hand and didn’t have to be provided by Soros for some more or less manufactured “color revolution”. The symbolism was fitting: in case of socio-economic emergency, show that you don’t want to be run over.”

Interviewed by: Basma Qaddour