The PS presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo advocates, in an interview posted online Tuesday evening by
Liberation
, a reduction in the fuel tax, saying she wants to insist on a
"social"
ecology
.
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"It is undoubtedly a difference with the Greens, I believe that we cannot continue to ask the most fragile, the most modest or the middle classes to pay the high price of the ecological transition"
, explains the mayor of Paris by assuring that
"the ecological transition will not take place against those who, today, can no longer make ends meet, because rents, energy and fuels are increasing but not their salaries"
.
How do you get there?
"By lowering taxes on the price of fuel,"
replies Anne Hidalgo.
“Some will explain to me that it is not ecological.
On the contrary: we need to hang up popular categories in this transition.
Eleven million people need their cars every day to go to work.
We must support them to turn the page on thermal vehicles from 2030 ”
.
"Go to public transport"
Asked about her image as a candidate hostile to the car, Anne Hidalgo emphasizes that
"where there is no solution, we cannot tell people not to take their car"
.
“We must help our fellow citizens, if they can, to go to public transport. This means having a plan for the railways and reopening small lines. This means investing with regions and departments in clean equipment. Finally, this means massively supporting the French in the purchase of non-polluting vehicles ”
.
Anne Hidalgo records, depending on the case, between 5.5% and 6% of presidential voting intentions according to an Ifop-Fiducial poll for
Le Figaro
and LCI published on Monday.
It is preceded on the left by the ecologist Yannick Jadot (8 to 9%) and by the leader of France rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon (7 to 8%).
A convention organized in Lille must officially designate it on October 23.
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