People are protesting because the cost of living is so high, they don’t give a fuck about HDI or GDP.
The 2010 referrendem was proposed because of high cost of living and rich white people controlling everything. Plus, were they gonna get support going forward or were they expected to become independent on their own after like 500 years of being colonized?
I’m guessing rich white people are still in control, and the protestors are mostly black. Doubt they’d send their controversial anti riot police to beat on an island full of white French people.
People like trump don’t get sent to places like that, and it’s fucked up that we have torture complexes and people are cool with that.