<p>Several thousand people gathered in the center of Paris on May 8 to protest against the election of Emmanuel Macron as French president.</p><p>The protest gathered leftists and representatives from France’s labor unions, though, according to local press reports</a>, the major unions did not sanction participation at an official level.</p><p>The marchers were gathered under the banner of the “Front Social,” which had rejected the choice between Macron and his right-wing rival Marine Le Pen.</p><p>For labor unions, Macron is synonymous with strongly opposed labor law reforms that he pushed during his time in the government of Francois Hollande.</p><br />
