Paris (AFP)
The collective "Vests yellow citizens" on Tuesday called for an "immediate freeze" of fuel prices and launched a petition to support its initiative to curb the effects of soaring oil prices.
Recalling that "the movement of Yellow Vests follows the rise in fuel prices in 2018", the collective co-founded by Thierry Paul Valette believes in a statement that "in a complicated social context, Emmanuel Macron should not let the situation get complicated "while" soaring prices (...) will cause a sharp rise in prices at the pump of nearly 5 cents ".
"The president must react very quickly," says the group. "We are therefore asking for an immediate freeze on fuel prices, and we must not be hostages to this price hike."
"Our movement of Yellow Vests is not dead, the grumbling still exists and very few answers have been made," warns the group, which wants to present a list led by Mr. Valette for the municipal elections in Paris in 2020 .
Soaring oil prices following the attack on facilities in Saudi Arabia, which led to a halving of production and fears a military escalation with Iran, could result in a rapid rise in oil prices. prices at the pump, say some professionals, although many unknowns remain in a very volatile context.
The President of the French Union of Petroleum Industries (Ufip), Francis Duseux, said Monday that we should "expect fairly quickly to increase the order of 4 or 5 cents" of the price of the liter.
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