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This Friday, during their meeting in Matignon, Jordan Bardella asked the new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to "renounce" the increase in regulated electricity prices planned for February 1.

For the president of the National Rally, it would be the last straw for families, but also for business leaders.

Jordan Bardella asked the new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who received him on Friday in Matignon, to "renounce" the increase in regulated electricity prices planned for February 1 which is a "major concern for labor France, for the working classes and the middle classes.

“I asked him to renounce this increase, considering that it would be the last straw not only for French families, but also for our business leaders,” added the president of the National Rally.

“A spoliation of French property”

Denouncing "a spoliation of French property", he deemed it "necessary to move away from the rules for setting prices in the European electricity market, which means that France no longer pays for electricity today at the price it produces it.

Regulated electricity prices must increase in February by a maximum of 10%, due to the gradual end of the energy shield, launched in the fall of 2021 by the government to limit increases in electricity and gas prices.

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The far-right leader, also head of the RN list in the European elections in June, also "alerted" the head of government about "the movement of anger" of farmers, who have increased demonstrations in Europe this week.

In particular, they are calling for a "mirror" clause to impose the same requirements on agricultural products imported at low prices as on those manufactured or grown in Europe.

“We must declare a state of agricultural emergency and establish economic patriotism to protect our farmers,” demanded the MEP, believing that it was necessary to “put an end to the crazy farm-to-fork strategy in which we are engaged the European Union".

Jordan Bardella plans to meet farmers from Gironde in Queyrac on Saturday.

Gabriel Attal continued his meetings on Friday with political and union forces to prepare his general policy declaration of January 30.