The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

The editorial of Le Figaro: “Serial-blockers and the silent majority”

2022-10-12T18:47:28.769Z


By Vincent Trémolet de Villers, deputy editor. They were sixteen ministers this weekend in Algiers. A half-government to fetch gas across the seas while some of the French could no longer find gasoline at the local service station. Cruel image of state clumsiness. There were weak signals, but our rulers, however concerned since the "yellow vests" to detect the slightest beginnings of a social movement, saw nothing coming. Worse still, in a str


They were sixteen ministers this weekend in Algiers.

A half-government to fetch gas across the seas while some of the French could no longer find gasoline at the local service station.

Cruel image of state clumsiness.

There were weak signals, but our rulers, however concerned since the "yellow vests" to detect the slightest beginnings of a social movement, saw nothing coming.

Worse still, in a strange resonance with the pandemic and the absence of a “shortage of masks”, Olivier Véran denied the obvious by affirming that, this time, it was for the essence that there was “ no shortage”.

Lack of anticipation?

Logout?

It is certain that the France of metropolises with fluid mobility depends less on the gas pump than all the rest of the country.

For the first, it is a matter of leisure (weekends,

holidays), for the second (three quarters of the French), a vital necessity.

We do not go by electric scooter from Bessais-le-Fromental to Saint-Amand-Montrond

This article is for subscribers only.

You have 54% left to discover.

Freedom is also to go to the end of a debate.

Keep reading your article for €0.99 for the first month

I ENJOY IT

Already subscribed?

Login

Source: lefigaro

All news articles on 2022-10-12

You may like

Trends 24h

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.