Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across France on Saturday to protest President Emmanuel Macron’s appointment of 73-year-old Michel Barnier as the country’s new Prime Minister. The protests were led primarily by left-wing parties, who accused Macron of undermining democracy and manipulating the recent legislative elections, according to a report by Reuters. Barnier, a centre-right politician and former EU Brexit negotiator, was named Prime Minister after a two-month search that followed the legislative elections, which ended in a hung parliament divided into three major political…