After Paris violence, pressure mounts on Macron's post-debate response

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PARIS (REUTERS) - Just when Mr Emmanuel Macron thought he had regained the upper hand over the yellow vest protest movement with his 'great debate', the latest flare-up of violence reminded the French leader that putting his reform agenda back on track won't be easy.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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PARIS - Just when Mr Emmanuel Macron thought he had regained the upper hand over the yellow vest protest movement with his"great debate", the latest flare-up of violence reminded the French leader that putting his reform agenda back on track won't be easy.

"Saturday's images of the Champs-Elysees threaten the early signs of appeasement that national debate seemed to have created," Mr Bernard Sananes of polling institute Elabe said. Whether it was a protesters' swansong, as his Interior Minister suggested, or sign of an"endless crisis" as newspaper Le Monde put it in its editorial, Saturday's destruction pointed to the tense environment in which Mr Macron must make decisions that will shape the rest of his five-year mandate.

But Mr Macron's aides acknowledge he will have to change both his style - critics say he is too controlling while voters have been angered by his perceived loftiness and arrogance - and allow for more participatory democracy. Less than three months before European elections that anti-establishment nationalists want to use as a show of force across the continent, a lost referendum could also backfire and offer Mr Macron's opponents an opportunity to challenge his legitimacy.

Reducing territorial inequalities and"making work pay" for the poorest was an integral part of Mr Macron's 2017 manifesto, his aides say, and they are confident households will start to feel the benefits of measures put in place in the last 22 months.

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