Forty Yellow Vests met the mayor, Didier Gallot, this Friday, November 23. For the latter, "their cause is far from being unfair". He was applauded.

"I think we can applaud Mr. Mayor ..." Meeting with the Mayor of Sables-d'Olonne, this Friday afternoon, the Yellow Vests probably did not expect such an exchange and such support . "I admit that the movement that you launched, I had waited for a long time. I have exactly the same perception: it is always the same who pay and the poor, " said Didier Gallot.

Author of a book on motorists

No need to prove his good faith, the former magistrate had in his hand a book he co-wrote in 1996, published by Albin Michel. His title ? Politically incorrect motorists. He mentioned the place of motorists who were more numerous than "thieves, corrupt, suburban racketeers" in the courts and intended to demonstrate "how a weakened state needs to make citizens believe that, by their behavior, they threaten French society, " says the book's summary.

In the marriage hall, the right-wing mayor congratulated the forty or so yellow vests present for not having "surrendered to intellectual terrorism" and "to be a pacifist movement . " An intervention punctuated by applause. "I was surprised, he understands the situation of people in need," says one of them.

The mayor, as a "representative of the state" , however, has won the yellow vest that some have tried to hang on the portrait of the President of the Republic, displayed in the room.

4,000 leaflets edited and distributed

After this exchange, the demonstrators distributed leaflets in the streets of the city center, where they recall their six priority requests: "the withdrawal of carbon taxes, the increase of the Smic of € 300, the revision of bank charges, the revaluation pensions, the stop to tax evasion and the removal of the CSG " , says Jérôme Souchet, one of the spokesmen of the movement in Sables-d'Olonne.

For the "yellow Saturday" of November 24, they have planned a new day of action with a breakfast "giant and friendly" near the roundabout of Leclerc from 8 am, before a walk to the city center and probably a snail operation in the afternoon on the outer boulevards.