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Protesters demonstrated across France on Wednesday, disrupting traffic, burning rubbish bins and at times clashing with police in a bid to "Block Everything" in anger at the political class and planned budget cuts, Reuters reported.
Security forces deployed across the country to try to remove any blockades as fast as possible, officials said, according to Reuters. Nearly 200 protesters were arrested across the country, and there were some scuffles.
Many demonstrators vented their anger against President Emmanuel Macron, who is already facing political turmoil after the parliamentary opposition united to defeat his government on Monday.
The "Block Everything" movement - a broad expression of discontent with no centralised leadership and an ad hoc organisation by social media - sprung up online in May among right-wing groups, researchers and officials said, but has since been taken over by the left and far-left, according to Reuters.
Parliament ousted Prime Minister Francois Bayrou in a confidence vote over his plans to tame the country's ballooning debt. Macron appointed his fifth prime minister in less than two years on Tuesday, picking a close ally, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu, which outraged left-wing politicians, according to Reuters.