Paris (AFP)

"From now on, there is really an urgent need to deconfine our country", estimated on Wednesday the leader of the deputies LR Damien Abad, who pleads for a reopening of the dining rooms "as of this weekend in particular in Ile-de-France" .

"We are going to devote the entire LR parliamentary niche to the acceleration of economic deconfinement", he explained during a press point, while the right defends Thursday in the hemicycle six bills including one lower VAT in catering, and cancellation or exemption from charges for SMEs or the hiring of young people.

"Health disarmament today has led to a very significant economic dropout, a slow pace in deconfinement. We wish to soften the health protocol for job descriptions, to relaunch part of the trade fairs," continued the deputy for Ain.

We must also "focus (deconfinement) on the tourist industry or facilitate access to nursing homes, prisons, houses for the disabled. All subjects are concerned, culture, sport, economic activity", a- he insisted.

For cafes and restaurants, "if we reopen this weekend and this 5.5% VAT cash measure, we have a real boost to revive the activity at a time when still extremely difficult ", considers the head of the LR group.

Secretary of State for Tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne said on Tuesday that Ile-de-France restaurants, which can still only operate their terraces, could reopen "a little earlier than June 22" if the health situation is evolving favorably.

The day before, Umih, the main union in the hotel and restaurant sector, had asked that cafes, bars and restaurants in Ile-de-France and the other two "orange" zones, Guyana and Mayotte, be able to "reopen quickly ", judging that their exploitation," limited to the only terraces ", was" not profitable ".

The employers' union also wants a "general relaxation of the health protocol throughout the territory", where cafes, bars and restaurants have reopened, in particular "the rules for distancing tables to allow establishments to use their full capacity to receive public".

The sector, which has 168,000 restaurants, 38,800 bars or cafes and 6,000 night establishments in France, was severely damaged by two and a half months of closure due to the health crisis.

The boss of Medef, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, called in an interview with Les Echos to speed up deconfinement and to "revise the health protocols applying in companies".

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