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Emmanuel Macron will try to extinguish the anger against the pension reform which has been heard since Thursday in many cities, with Tuesday evening still clashes in particular in Paris place de la République. Withdrawn since January on the pension file, the Head of State will respond at 1 p.m., live at the Elysée, to journalists Marie-Sophie Lacarrau of TF1 and Julian Bugier of France 2, on the eve of a new day of union mobilization. Before addressing the French, the president called on the government to “appease” and “listen to anger”, while assuming its choices. In front of the parliamentarians of his camp, Tuesday evening, he especially warned the demonstrators: “The crowd, whatever it is, has no legitimacy in the face of the people who express themselves sovereign through their elected representatives”.
The protest against the pension reform is felt in many economic sectors, starting with the fuel sector. Incidents broke out on Tuesday in front of the Fos-sur-Mer oil depot, near Marseille, where the authorities made the first requisitions of striking personnel. Nearly 54% of Bouches-du-Rhône service stations lacked a type of fuel, and 41% were dry on Tuesday. The shortages particularly affect Gard and Vaucluse, where the prefectures have decided to limit fuel sales until Thursday inclusive. At the national level, around 12% of service stations in France are out of petrol or diesel and 6% run out. Because the south of France is not the only one to be affected by the mobilization. In the three TotalEnergies refineries, for example, of the 298 operators, 36% were on strike Tuesday morning.
In Corse-du-Sud, Cargèse paid tribute to Yvan Colonna on Tuesday. A little over two hundred people responded to the appeal of youth organizations for this vigil, in agreement and according to the will of his family. The date was indeed symbolic: the independence activist died a year ago, on March 21, 2022, after being violently attacked by one of his fellow prisoners. For the occasion, our journalist Alexandre Vella was on hand while the discussions on the autonomy of Corsica continue and the question of the memory of Yvan Colonna and his political heritage still arises.