While traveling to Marseille, Prime Minister Jean Castex notably met Renaud Muselier to discuss economic recovery.
While the fear of a reconfinement is felt, the president of the PACA region, "fights" so that cafetiers and restaurateurs can work.
Allow to work.
In a general context of worrying progression of the coronavirus in France, with more than 40,000 new cases declared in 24 hours according to the latest figures, Prime Minister Jean Castex and his Minister of Health Olivier Véran went to the North hospital in Marseille, this Saturday.
They notably mentioned the conditions for an economic recovery in this metropolis placed in "maximum alert zone".
Among the actors met, the president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte-D'azur region Renaud Muselier, who pleads for "giving the opportunity to cafetiers and restaurateurs to work".
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"We work so that cafetiers and restaurant owners live"
"I see my friends who are business owners here, they are very penalized," he recalls at the microphone of Europe 1. "We are working so that cafetiers and restaurateurs live. We find ourselves in a situation where this is not possible. it is not public money that can help, we must give them the opportunity to work, that is what we are fighting for ".
"Complex state cogs"
A situation all the more delicate as the president of the region fears an administrative delay in the support measures for traders announced by the government.
"Aid up to 10,000 euros [up to 10,000 euros, editor's note] per company validated by the government is still not concretely in force because the application decrees are missing", points out in particular Renaud Muselier.
"There are these complex state cogs, with taps that are installed by a number of ministries and that block government decisions."
And to conclude: "it must go as close as possible and as soon as possible on our territory in order to save businesses".