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Protesters on the sixth day of protest against tax increases and official corruption, al-Nour Square, in the port city of Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, on October 22, 2019. Ibrahim CHALHOUB / AFP

In Lebanon, the street does not let go despite the announcements of the power that had promised yesterday a budget 2020 without additional taxes and a 50% decline in salaries of politicians. Demonstrations continue on the sixth day of watch rallies in Beirut and Tripoli, the great city of the North, to demand the departure of a political class deemed incompetent and corrupt.

With our correspondent in Lebanon, Nicolas Feldmann

The demonstrators remain mobilized. They gathered again tonight at al-Nour Square.

Viewed from above, the scene is quite impressive: hundreds of phones that sparkle, tides of red and white flags of Lebanon and perched on the edge of a building several DJ harangue this compact crowd.

The atmosphere in Tripoli is at the party, but behind this apparent good mood, the protesters once again shouted their anger against a political class deemed corrupt.

The slogans are the same as these last five days: "the people want the fall of the regime", " revolution, "repeat the protesters with one voice.

Neither the reforms announced yesterday nor the words of the Prime Minister have calmed the street. Prime Minister Saad Hariri is not immune to this movement of defiance here in Tripoli, a Sunni city, and therefore one of his strongholds.

Just in front of me, hanging on the window of a disused building, an old portrait of the prime minister was torn apart. The message is clear: it's a whole system that the protesters, mostly young, want to sweep for the sixth night in a row.