“...referenda in France could open the door to the revocation of laws permitting abortion, banning capital punishment, and recognizing gay marriage. It also could lead to all manner of demagogic economic policies – from a lower retirement age to anti-immigrant measures or even a “Frexit” from the eurozone or the European Union.“



Precisely you are correct, and this exactly why the yellow vests want the peoples referendum like in Switzerland.



One has to reckon with the fact that the deep reason of this yellow vest people's uprising is precisely the need for rectifying some decisions which have been imposed against people's will. Particularly the Treaty of Lisbon, which has been adopted directly against the expressed will of French voters in the 2005 referendum, and the gay “marriage“ to which the French people has never given its consent. Also the immigration policy under which the French people is suffering for more than a generation, has never met people's consent which was never requested.



All this needs to be rectified, or at least brought to vote, in order to make sure that there people's will has not been abused. lndeed all these things have been imposed upon the people through blatant abuses of authority, and in the deep conscience of a people, such things cannot be forgotten, nor forgiven.



This is what makes the demand for a “referendum d’initiative citoyenne” irresistible, and because the power knows it, it will not permit it. The consequence therefore is an inevitable clash which can only end up in the total demise of the existing political orientation represented by Macron.



lt is utterly unimaginable that the power can prevail here against the demands of the yellow vests, which will become more radical with time passing. Even brutal suppression of the movement is impossible, it may be tempted and will only make the government defeat more certain and more shameful.



This will be a regime change and put a brutal end to the process of building a European supranational governance, which is, and always was, fundamentally opposed by the people..