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President Emmanuel Macron has clarified his position on the increasingly controversial topic of the recent rise in fuel prices in an interview with journalists from the Ebra group gathering the main headlines of the eastern regional press. France: "I badume perfectly that the taxation due to diesel is at the level of that of gasoline and I prefer the taxation of fuel to the taxation of work", underlines the head of the State in this interview realized Sunday before to embark on an unprecedented presidential journey through eastern and northern France to celebrate the centenary of the end of the First World War.
It is normal that is misunderstood
"The same people who are complaining about rising fuel prices are also demanding that we fight against air pollution because their children are suffering from diseases," adds Macron, adding that "the price increase at the pump we see today is related to 70% that of oil prices. "We have been told for decades that we have to buy diesel and now it's the opposite, it's normal that this is misunderstood", agrees the head of state while the discontent rises among the French on the issues of rising fuel prices and purchasing power in general.
78% of French people consider the blocking of the roads of November 17th justified
According to an Odoxa-Dentsu Consulting survey conducted for France Info and the Figaro published Thursday, 78% of French people believe "justified" the call to block the roads on November 17 to protest against the rise in the price of diesel. Mr. Macron says that "yes", he understands the doubts, anger and impatience of the French. "I respect them and I do not say as in the past: + suffer in silence, it will get better +."
The President of the Republic also badumes his "share of responsibility". "I speak to the French with my character, with my way of doing things.When they are worried, I have a part of responsibility: it is that I do not explain well enough.But I was elected on a clear project , unambiguous and I will have accounts for a long time, "said the president who, a year and a half after his arrival at the Elysee, is at the lowest in the polls.
Transport badistance
In a second interview given Sunday to regional dailies, the Courrier Picard, Voix du Nord and the Union, Mr. Macron said he was "particularly sensitive to the anger of those who have to move to work". "The Hauts-de-France region has offered transport badistance for those who have more than 30 km per day of travel, and I asked the government to see how we can support this," he said. that "in the next bill of finance, this aid will be tax exempt, so that households are accompanied on a daily basis".
The car remains an indispensable means of transport
Earlier Sunday, Secretary of State for the Minister of Transition Ecology and Solidarity, Emmanuelle Wargon, badured that there was "no conspiracy of the government against the car" in a video filmed in "selfie" mode and shared on Twitter. "We know very well that the car is an indispensable mode of transport, especially when you leave the cities," insisted Ms. Wargon answering another video, become viral, "Jacline", a Briton accusing the executive to engage in "stalking drivers".
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