Fuel shortage in France: pressure on the government
TotalEnergies gas station in Paris, October 9, 2022. AFP - JULIEN DE ROSA
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The fuel shortage continues to worsen in France.
It is now nearly a third of the country's service stations that are struggling to supply motorists.
A figure which swelled during the weekend and which allows the oppositions to put pressure on the government
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A lack of anticipation, preparation, organization… Critics rained down on the government on Sunday.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon particularly regrets that Emmanuel Macron did not listen to his advice more: negotiate oil prices with Algeria, increase wages...
Marine Le Pen, for her part, criticizes the government's inability to control the situation.
The State has planned and organized nothing to avoid this shortage of gasoline.
I explained during the campaign that we had an interest in discussing with the Algerians who have the necessary resources, nothing was done.
The same applies to price freezes at European level.
#DimPol pic.twitter.com/IYufTN4DCm
— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) October 9, 2022
20% shortage of service stations throughout France is disastrous.
40 to 50% in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais is simply unacceptable.
This government anticipates nothing, controls nothing.
And no one is ever responsible for anything!
https://t.co/u6lUTG5mL7
– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) October 8, 2022
The right goes even further and launches a lawsuit in laxity: "
We must end the culture of the strike in France
", launched the boss of the senators LR Bruno Retailleau, who asks the government to requisition by force if necessary the fuels stuck in refineries.
France: TotalEnergies offers to advance wage negotiations https://t.co/3hGo2yf8sX pic.twitter.com/9owGd5r9xw
– RFI (@RFI) October 9, 2022
The pressure has therefore increased a notch, while Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is in Algeria accompanied by a large part of the government.
The Minister of Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher, in charge of the file, for her part remained in France, but will not be able to go to the field;
she revealed on Sunday that she had Covid.
A delicate start to the week for the executive, which sees two explosive files open in parallel in Parliament: the finance bill in the National Assembly and the reform of the police in the Senate.
►Read also: Memorial sequence for the beginnings of Elisabeth Borne in Algeria
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