Defended by the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, the measure “can study”, according to the Elysée. The opposition denounces an electoral proposal a few weeks before the first round of the legislative elections.
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It is only a track, a “personal reflection of a minister”, it is said in Matignon, but the associations of motorists are already crying victory. Wednesday, May 25, the entourage of the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, expressed the idea of alleviating the sanctions related to speeding. The withdrawal of a permit point would no longer be automatic if the speed exceeded does not exceed 5 km/h. The pecuniary fine, on the other hand, would be maintained. The measure would be accompanied by a strengthening of the fight against identity theft: when a motorist claims in a false way not to be driving during an offense.
“Finally!”, The association 40 million motorists welcomes. Runaway? If the proposal is still due to arbitrations within the government, it would have, already, the assent of Emmanuel Macron. “The president is connected,” we want to believe in the entourage of the Minister of the Interior. “It is a reflection that can study,” we confirm at the Elysée.
A little more than fifteen days of the first round of the legislative elections, on June 12, this gesture towards drivers already kept by the increase in fuel prices can be seen as a new flip-flop of the Head of State . An “electoral” measure, denounces, in choir, the opposition. Unless it is the proof that Emmanuel Macron “learned” from his five years to power, as he assured a few months before his re -election.
do not “sweat People “
When he arrived at the Elysée, the head of state had hardly sought to coax the rollers by imposing, in 2018, the speed limitation at 80 km/h, carried by his Prime Minister of the period, Edouard Philippe, and the carbon tax on fuel prices. Two clashes, according to representatives of motorists behind the revolt of “yellow vests”, one of the strongest crises in his first mandate. But a position assumed at the time in the name of road safety and environmental defense, which had resulted in the words of government spokesperson, Benjamin Griveaux, castigating – attacking his opponent Republicans (LR) Laurent Wauquiez – “The guys who smoke cigarettes and who roll in diesel”.
Taxed by arrogance, the Head of State now seems to say that he does not ignore that the people most penalized by these points withdraws are the modest households of a rural and peripheral France so often forgotten Parisians. “The goal is not to sweat people but to be effective. We mobilize our forces on those who rot the lives of people, who drive like zinzins, make urban rodeos or do not respect cyclists. But we Do not equip common people who have a moment of inattention, “attests Sacha Houlié, deputy of Vienne for the Presidential Party La République en Marche (LRM), candidate for his re -election.
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