Tens of thousand of protesters were out in Paris to express their deep dissatisfaction with President Francois Hollande, a year after he took office.

Unemployment is at a 16-year high and the president’s approval ratings are at an all time low, about 25 percent. 

The Left Front Coalition organized the march.  It is deeply disappointed in what it sees as the Socialist President’s Marchers betrayal of the issues that got him elected.

Jean-Luc Melenchon, the Left Front's firebrand candidate in last year's vote, accused Hollande of worsening Europe's economic crisis by focusing on “the interests of shareholders, of big business and of European austerity policies, to the detriment of the workers”.

Hollande has chopped 10 billion euros in spending and increased taxes by 20 billion Euros.   But that’s relatively little for a country with 2 trillion Euro economy of which 57 percent is government spending.  Despite this, unemployment soared and France appears to be on the edge of recession.

Hollande's promise of a fairer society was betrayed by the recent scandal involving his former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, who admitted lying about a secret bank account in Switzerland.

But the right is just as dissatisfied with Hollande.  An earlier march last week tried to pressure Hollande to scrap Marriage Equality legislation passed in April.