"There is no emancipation, first of all, if there is not a real continuous investment in the school", "there is no real emancipation if we are not well cared for", and the third point "is to succeed in significantly lowering unemployment", declared the candidate in an Overseas program the 1st, online Wednesday evening.
Mr. Macron admits that full employment in the Overseas Territories "is not achievable within five years", but he indicates that he wants to "go faster in training, develop local economic sectors", because these are territories who still import too much their energy, their food.
The strategy for these territories is therefore, according to Mr. Macron, "the one that responds to the drop in unemployment, to the high cost of living because it is very much linked to the fact that we import far too many things, in particular foodstuffs" .
To achieve emancipation, it is necessary, according to him, to "produce more" locally, to "pivot" and "diversify production" on "agricultural land still too marked towards historical productions", such as sugar cane or bananas in the West Indies. .
"Food autonomy is achievable", assures the outgoing president, in particular in Martinique, and this requires "putting more competition. There I was not fast enough, not strong enough: you have to put more competition in order to be able to lower prices because there are systems that are in the hands of too few," he conceded.
Due to the "different issues" from one overseas territory to another, the president-candidate must set out a program for each of them in letters that will soon be sent to the inhabitants.
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