Alleviate the shortage.
While the strike at the Esso and Total refineries has been renewed for Tuesday, the government will send an instruction to the prefects in order to prohibit the filling of jerrycans throughout the territory, according to BFMTV information, confirmed Monday evening at
Le Figaro
.
For the moment, this measure already existed for certain departments of Hauts-de-France or in Ile-de-France, such as Oise, Pas-de-Calais or even Yvelines.
With this desire to extend to the entire national territory, the prefects are called upon to issue a corresponding order in their respective departments.
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With a third of the stations affected and the fear of a possible extension of the strike movement in the coming days, the executive wants to show that it is on the move.
Monday evening, four ministers will be present for an emergency meeting around Elisabeth Borne.
Among the latter, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, that of the Energy Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher, that of Transport Clément Beaune and the spokesman of the government Olivier Véran.
Despite calls from the government for a negotiation between Total and the CGT - which is protesting on the wage issue - to stop the blockades of refineries, the strike continues.
And could push the government to requisition the stocks of strategic fuels that the
