Macron launches debate to quell unending yellow vests protests

In a bid to quell the unending yellow vests protest across France, President Emmanuel Macron has reportedly kicked off a three-month national debate to stop the unrest.

Macron seeks to put an end to the protests with a letter to the French in which he pledged to listen to new ideas but stuck to his core economic reform agenda.

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“For me, there is no banned issue. We won’t agree on everything, which is normal in a democracy. But at least we’ll show we’re a people which is not afraid of talking, exchanging, debating,” Macron wrote in the letter published by his office.

His new initiative comes after nine weeks of protests by the “yellow vests” — named after the high-visibility jackets they wear.

It also comes two days after a blast which occurred at the ground floor of a building in a central Paris shopping district claimed two lives amid yellow vest protests.

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