Thousands of protesters take to the French streets against Le Pen and the extreme right

MADRID, 16 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the main French cities this Saturday to protest against the extreme right and in particular against the presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who will dispute the French Presidency with Emmanuel Macron on April 24.

In Paris there have been about 9,200 attendees at the demonstration under the slogan “No to the extreme right”, according to police data cited by the French television network BFMTV. The figure is well above the 3,000 or 4,000 attendees that the Prefecture expected.

There were acts convened in some thirty cities. The demonstrations are called by organizations such as the Human Rights League, SOS Racism, the General Confederation of Workers union (CGT) or the Magistracy Union among some thirty entities.

Le Pen has criticized these mobilizations for considering them a “deeply anti-democratic” expression in response to his passage to the second round of the elections.

“It seems to me that the demonstrations against the results of an election are deeply undemocratic. The elections are not contested in the streets,” lamented Le Pen, second in the first round last week, in statements to the press during a visit to Saint -Remy-sur-Avre.