List of Yellow Vest (Gilets Jaunes) Movement Demands

(I am posting this as a reminder: Bolivia wasn't the first and wont be the last example we should follow) 

All 25 of them:

 

The French "Yellow Vest" (Gilets Jaunes) movement did not have a single official manifesto. However, a decentralized list of 25 popular demands circulated widely online in late 2018 during grassroots assemblies. These demands focused on the high cost of living, taxation, and democratic reform. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

 

Core Fiscal and Economic Demands

• Cancel the planned fuel tax hikes.
• Raise the minimum wage to ε 1,300 net per month.
• Cap maximum pensions at ε 1,200 monthly.
• Exempt overtime hours from all taxation.
• Create more tax brackets to make income tax more progressive.
• Reinstate the solidarity tax on wealth (ISF).
• Impose higher taxes on major multinational corporations (e.g., Google, Amazon, McDonald's).
• Require smaller taxes and fees for small local businesses. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Social and Labor Policies

• Implement a massive government-funded housing insulation plan.
• Ensure a single, unified social security system to replace separate regimes.
• Require companies with dividends to share profits with workers.
• Limit temporary labor contracts (CDD) in favor of permanent contracts.
• Cap all retirement pensions and abolish retirement below full-pension age.
• Enforce strict equal pay policies for men and women in the workplace. [1, 2, 3, 4]

Government and Democracy

• Institute the Citizens' Initiative Referendum (RIC) to allow public voting on new laws.
• Limit elected officials to median French salaries.
• End lifelong perpetual salaries and benefits for ex-presidents.
• Require blank (protest) votes to be counted officially in elections.
• Ban elected officials with criminal records from holding public office.
• Lower the retirement age for all workers to 60. [1, 2, 3]

Infrastructure and Environment

• Protect small village and city centers by halting large commercial retail projects.
• Provide free parking in city centers.
• Reopen small, rural train lines and local post offices. [1, 2, 3]

Trade and Migration

• Halt the privatization of public infrastructure and services.
• Reform the asylum process to better integrate or deport applicants