translated from Spanish: The French Government launches consultations by the crisis of the “Yellow Jackets”

Besieged by the deepening of the crisis of the “Yellow Jackets” movement, the French Government started Monday an intense round of consultations with leaders of parties represented in the Parliament, in an attempt to curb the popular discontent and avoid further violent incidents.
From 08.30 until 21.00 (07.30 GMT) local time (20.00 GMT), the Palace of Matignon, official residence of the Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe, is the scene of an unusual bustle, that precedes a debate in the National Assembly Wednesday and Thursday in the Senate.
The trigger is the protest that originally motivated the rise in fuel rates and last Saturday, the third consecutive, 136,000 people gathered in different parts of France.
Although not the 166,000 of the 24th or the 282.000 17, urban guerrilla warfare scenes recorded in Paris, where the Mayor’s office assessed the losses in between three and four million euros, have prompted the Executive to accelerate their initiatives to give a twist to the situ ation.
They call for moratorium on great part of opposition leaders today as immediately to the head of Government called for a moratorium on the rise of tax on fuels.
“It’s the only way that this argument is credible,” said the first Secretary of the Socialist Party (PS), Olivier Faure, who also claimed “a change of direction and method” so that the announced debate can take place “in good condition and allow it” You can find places of mediation”.
For Laurent Wauquiez, leader of the largest party of the opposition, conservative Republicans, the debate itself is no longer enough to calm tempers and they are necessary concrete measures. “Don’t have the impression that (the authorities) are aware of the anger” of the population, said out of his meeting with Philippe.
The demands of Le Pen and other leaders, the President of the ultra-right national group, Marine Le Pen, demanded “important and immediate solutions”, while as the leader of the centrist Union of Democrats and independents (UDI), Jean-Christophe LaGarde, warned that, if there is no symbolic gestures, the situation “is going to explode”.
Last Saturday, the demonstration ended with 682 arrests in all France (412 in Paris) and 263 wounded, including 5 serious and 81 members of the forces of order, as well as dozens of cars burning and damage to the urban material.

Original source in Spanish

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