In France, tens of thousands of people took to the streets Saturday to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s appointment of conservative Michel Barnier as the new prime minister. Leftist parties, which won the most votes in July’s snap parliamentary elections, accused Macron of stealing the election. This is Benjamin Lucas, a deputy from the leftist New Popular Front coalition.

Benjamin Lucas: “By appointing Michel Barnier, the president of the French Republic has decided to spit in the face of the millions of French people who turned out on July 7 to vote in an historic election. The question before us was whether or not we wanted the extreme right to win in this country. The French said no. There was a massive turnout, the highest since 1981. The message was clear: We don’t want the extreme right in power.”