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The President of France, Emmanuel Macron, presented measures with which he hopes to calm France of the so-called "yellow vests", after five months of protests and two months of great national debate.
For this reason , Macron proposed lowering taxes for the middle classes and improving pensions, as well as simplifying the rules of referendums to try to make the population feel more involved in the democratic process.
The president recognized that the France Mobile Number List crisis has revealed unrest and a deep feeling of social injustice that he should not ignore.
Which does not mean, he stressed, that the course of reforms that he began when he arrived at the Elysée two years ago was the wrong route.
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For this reason, Macron reinforced his intention to continue the reforms and rejected some of the main measures demanded by the vests, starting with reintroducing the criticized suspended wealth tax (ISF), something that Macron ruled out again.
“There is a deep feeling of fiscal, territorial and social injustice. And we must give him an answer,” Macron acknowledged.
According to the president, these measures should have been presented on April 15, but the fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris prevented this.
Macron has decided to continue the reformist path that he began as soon as he arrived at the Elysée. This announcement comes after the great national debate which, for two months, between March and April, allowed thousands of French people to debate their political priorities and propose measures.
The idea, the Government spokesperson, Sibeth Ndiaye, stated the day before, is to “quickly prepare the order of battle to define a calendar” for the implementation of these measures. The Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, is in fact planning to hold a “seminar” with his ministers next Monday to begin developing the new plan.
« There was little doubt that the measures were going to revolve, above all, around a tax cut. We must lower taxes as quickly as possible,” Philippe already said when, at the beginning of the month, he presented the results of the great national debate that the Government has committed to transform into initiatives and policies. What was debated by thousands of French people was summarized in a 1,500-page document that indicated that their main demand was that: pay less taxes.
On the contrary, Macron could have backtracked on one of the leaked measures that has caused the most stir: his alleged intention to announce the suppression of the National School of Administration (ENA).