{"id":24069,"date":"2018-12-02T22:23:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T22:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24069"},"modified":"2018-12-02T22:23:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T22:23:06","slug":"can-macron-survive-the-biggest-challenge-to-his-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24069","title":{"rendered":"Can Macron survive the biggest challenge to his presidency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"82.7910602911\">\n<p>The Arc de Triomphe daubed with graffiti. The Champs Elysee cloaked in clouds of tear gas. It&#8217;s becoming a familiar story in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The famous sights of the French capital turned into battlegrounds for the third successive weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yellow Vest&#8221; protesters are again venting their fury at the rising price of keeping their cars on the road.<\/p>\n<p>And there are increasing calls for President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/04\/profile-emmanuel-macron-170403132712654.html\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a> to resign.<\/p>\n<p>Facing the biggest challenge to his 18-month presidency, he flew home from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/11\/g20-summit-2018-latest-updates-181126191302549.html\">G20 summit<\/a> in Argentina for an emergency government meeting.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just next month&#8217;s proposed fuel tax rise which is infuriating many, falling living standards are too.<\/p>\n<p>So, how can Macron calm the rising anger?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Laura Kyle<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Anne Giudicelli &#8211; Chief executive, Terrorisc Consultancy<\/p>\n<p>Remi Bourgeot &#8211; Economist, French Institute of International and Strategic Affairs<\/p>\n<p>David Lees &#8211; Lecturer in French Studies, University of Warwick<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arc de Triomphe daubed with graffiti. The Champs Elysee cloaked in clouds of tear gas. It&#8217;s becoming a familiar story in Paris. The famous sights of the French capital turned into battlegrounds for the third successive weekend. &#8220;Yellow Vest&#8221; protesters are again venting their fury at the rising price of keeping their cars on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}