“Division will make us less strong to face these crises. » Emmanuel Macron calls on the French to “stay united”. After receiving the main leaders of the political parties represented in Parliament at the Élysée this Friday to discuss international tensions and the surge in prices at the pump, the President of the Republic gave a speech during which he made several announcements.
By first mentioning the war in Ukraine and the fact that “the nature of Russian aggressiveness has changed”Emmanuel Macron announced the preparation of a protection plan against “Russian hybrid attacks”. This plan would thus aim to protect “our critical infrastructures” and the “the most sensitive sites of our defense industrial and technological base”. “The second crisis we are experiencing is the consequences of the war in Middle East »he continued, referring to the rise in fuel and energy prices.
While the Strait of Hormuz continues to be blocked and an agreement between Iran and the United States still seems far away, the French head of state discusses “diplomatic paths that could make it possible to reopen this strait”. He assures that he is working to guarantee supplies of diesel and gas while avoiding “tensions” on the markets. Emmanuel Macron then announced the holding of an energy G7 to “greater cooperation on stock management”.
The opposition was unconvinced by Emmanuel Macron. Upon leaving his meeting at the Élysée, Jordan Bardella particularly regretted that “the question of fuel (is) not mentioned”, while the boss of the PCF Fabien Roussel judges that there is “no short-term solution envisaged by the President of the Republic”. For his part, Raphaël Glucksmann called for aid “much more massive” faced with a situation “socially explosive”.
