Yellow Vests launch MEP candidate list

Members of France’s Yellow Jackets movement announced the first names on a list of candidates to run in May’s European Parliament election, according to French media.

The list so far has 10 names and is led by Ingrid Levavasseur, a 31-year-old auxiliary nurse and one of the main figures of the street movement, which began in response to an increase in fuel taxes but has since morphed into a bigger — largely anti-Emmanuel Macron — cause.

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