Europe 1 with AFP 8:34 p.m., April 14, 2022

Demonstrations are scheduled across France this Saturday to protest against the far right, in view of the ballot for the second round of the presidential election.

A call to say "no" to the far right and the candidate of the National Rally, Marine Le Pen, in the race for the Élysée.

Dozens of demonstrations are planned in France on Saturday to say "no" to the far right, eight days before the second round of the presidential election, at the call of many organizations and unions including the League for Human Rights, the CGT or the Syndicat de la magistrature.

These organizations will meet around the slogan "Against the far right and its ideas, no Marine Le Pen at the Elysée".

In Paris, the procession will leave Place de la Nation at 2:00 p.m., heading for Place de la République.

"By rejecting Marine Le Pen, it is a question of preventing the advent of a destructive social project of the rule of law, of the social and united democratic republic that we defend every day. It is a question of denouncing its misleading program which would hit hard the weakest, the most deprived, women, LGBTI or foreign people", they explain in a press release published on the website of the LDH (League of Human Rights).

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Among the many signatories, the Syndicat des avocats de France, the Confédération paysanne, the student organizations Fage, FSE, MNL and Unef, the trade union Solidaires, the NGOs Oxfam, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, the associations Attac, Droit au logement and FCPE, or even the anti-racist movements MRAP and SOS Racisme.