• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    1 hour ago

    Yeah, that’s a bunch of wishful thinking. Snap elections were called in 2024 because of the rise of popularity of the far-right. The resulting hung parliament was too weak to push pension reforms changes and had to compromise. The protests served more as a backdrop to all this than the direct cause of any of it.

    Yellow wests protested for months and achieved nothing. Then Covid hit and government relaxed some of its reforms to save the economy and the protests fizzled out.

    I will give you the farmers protests. The right-wing aligned farmer unions were successful at extorting the government. 1 out of 3 is not bad but it’s really not the ‘world champions of protesting’ levels people think it is. Most of the time it’s just bunch of rioting that results in nothing.