Will Macron face French resistance with reform drive?

PARIS: He had just secured a great win, but on the night Emmanuel Macron captured the French presidency, several hundred far-left and anti-capitalist activists and anarchists took to the streets.

Among the crowd of mostly young men on May 7 were 29-year-old Adrien and his friend Gregory. It hadn’t taken long to register their discontent: both were arrested around the time Macron was on stage in front of cheering supporters at his victory party at the Louvre museum.