The President of the Republic said he wanted the fuel crisis “to be resolved as quickly as possible”, promising to “do the maximum”.
Emmanuel Macron called for a solution on Monday “as soon as possible” for “adjust» the fuel crisis and will bring together in the afternoon at the Elysée the Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne and the members of the government concerned.
The Head of State will “a point of the solutionin particular with ministers Bruno Le Maire (Economy), Agnès Pannier-Runacher (Energy Transition), Christophe Béchu (Ecological Transition), Clément Beaune (Transport) and government spokesperson Olivier Véran. The time of the meeting was not specified, but Emmanuel Macron was still in the early afternoon at the Paris Motor Show.
While evading questions about the interprofessional social movement scheduled for Tuesday, he briefly mentioned the fuel crisis during his visit to the show. “I am alongside all our compatriots who are struggling and who are tired of this situation», «we will continue to do our best“, he said. “I want this to be fixed as soon as possible“, he added, responding “I knowto a journalist who asked him if the crisis was getting worse.
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He did not give further details on what the executive intended to do. The government has launched new requisitions on two fuel depots to supply service stations in the face of the continuing strike at TotalEnergies, at the start of a high-risk week marked by an interprofessional movement on Tuesday and the first departures on vacation on Friday .
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