# Social unrest ahead of French elections: Protesters ‘don’t believe politics can achieve anything’

https://mins.news/en/video/135909

- France 24 English, 2026-11-09 16:52 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjQzgzhePbk

> France’s 1.6% minimum-wage increase, introduced after nationwide protests, may briefly ease social unrest but does little to address the country’s deeper political and institutional crisis. Lancaster University senior lecturer Renaud Foucart says the problem goes beyond falling purchasing power, fiscal constraints and the limits of a minority government.

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