François Hollande faced calls for a "big stroke of the broom" against his unpopular presidency, as thousands took to the streets to vent anger against the French leader's first year in office, reports The Daily Telegraph.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the firebrand leader of the Left Front, led a march on the Bastille to call for the embattled Socialist president to end "social liberal politics" and make him prime minister.
"The trial period is over, the results are not there," said Mr Mélenchon.
He accused Mr Hollande, who singled out finance as his "main enemy" during his French electoral campaign, of "betraying his promises" and becoming a "little monarch out of all control".
"We don't want the world of finance in power," he told a sea of red flag wavers.
Mr Hollande is facing criticism from all sides. Marine Le Pen, the far-Right leader, last week called for an end to the "absurd politics of endless austerity". François Fillon, the mainstream Right former prime minister, warned France is heading "towards catastrophe".
Commentators have likened his chances of surviving the torrent of bad news to that of a plumber dealing with a tsunami.
Recession will strike this year, the European Commission forecast on Friday, revising down already barely visible growth to minus 0.1 per cent.
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