Emmanuel Macron tries to find a solution to “leave anyone in the disarray” against the outbreak of the prices of gasoline and diesel without renouncing its environmental objectives.
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In politics, he is so-called “nitroglycerin” subjects. That of the outbreak of the price of gasoline and diesel is of those. At six months of the presidential election, the executive failed to observe that the cost of fuel had now exceeded the threshold that had fed in 2018 the revolt of “yellow vests”. Enough for Emmanuel Macron beat the reminder of his troops to launch counterflows as soon as possible.
“There will be a short-term action, accompanying households. The government works there and will have in the coming days to complete its response according to the evolution to leave no one in the disarray,” assured The President of the Republic Thursday, October 14th in the margins of a trip dedicated to the sport in Tremblay-en-France (Seine-Saint-Denis). The rise in energy prices is “a problem” that “affects all our compatriots, sometimes even more our most modest compatriots (…), those who have constrained displacements and which are obliged to do full every Day “, insisted Emmanuel Macron, saying not” messestimating what it represents about the budget of our compatriots “.
After having announced the blocking of the regulated gas rates to deal with the outbreak of courses and aid granted to the most modest households through the abundance of 100 euros of the “Energy check”, Prime Minister Jean Castex is therefore summoned to find a solution to tackle, also, in flight of gas prices and preserve the purchasing power of the French.
Which one? The oppositions on the left as right have their idea. “While the price of diesel breasts, remember that 60% of the price of gasoline these are taxes: the state can act!”, Pleaded the national gathering candidate in the presidential election, Marine Le Pen . “I propose to do a floating tax on the essence as it could be done at the time by the Jospin government, [which] makes it possible to lower the taxes when the price of the barrel goes up so that it does not weigh on The purchasing power of our fellow citizens “, also suggested Fabien Roussel, also presidential candidate for the Communist Party (PCF) on CNEWS . “The government must block prices without asking distributors. It must be said stop!”, For its part, claimed Alexis Corbière, the member for Seine-Saint-Denis and spokesperson for the candidate of France unsuitable (LFI) , Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on FranceInfo Thursday
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