Macron Rejects French Interior Minister’s Resignation Amid Cost-of-Living Protests

Macron's refusal keeps a security chief in place while effectively assigning him the blame, framing the unrest as a policing and intelligence failure rather than a policy one. That distinction matters for how the cost-of-living grievances driving the protests are treated: the response is operational, not economic. The new frontline methods and the acknowledged gaps in advance assessment are the pressure points to watch, since they set the test of whether the interior ministry's approach holds as unrest continues.