The "gilets jaunes" (yellow vests) movement, is a political movement for that started in France, October 2018. After an online petition posted in May had attracted nearly a million signatures, mass demonstrations began on 17 November.
The movement is motivated by rising fuel prices, a high cost of living; it claims that a disproportionate burden of the government's tax reforms were falling on the working and middle classes, especially in rural and peri-urban areas.
The protesters have called for lower fuel taxes, a reintroduction of the solidarity tax on wealth, a minimum-wage increase, the implementation of Citizens' initiative referendums, as well as the resignations of President Emmanuel Macron and the Second Philippe government.
