Radars – Nicolas Dupont-Aignan enters the campaign against 80 km-h –

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan enters the campaign against 80 km / h

Radars - Nicolas Dupont-Aignan enters the campaign against 80 km-h -

The president of Debout la France and deputy for Essonne is preparing to launch a poster campaign against the drop in speed to 80 km / h on the roads. He also wants to allow the Prime Minister to abandon his project without losing face by recommending a full-scale experiment in his own department: Seine-Maritime. ! Meet.

Unlike those who are generally rather passive, some parliamentarians do not hesitate to proclaim loud and clear their opposition to the announced by Edouard Philippe on and revealed by Site from .

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Joining the fight of one and one – including within La Republique en Marche! -, the president of Debout la France enters the dance and is preparing to launch a vast poster campaign, with leaflets to be affixed to the back of his vehicle. 

"We are increasing the measures that piss off everyone"

"We printed 100,000 posters, it’s huge," explains Nicolas Dupont-Aignan to the three journalists he invited to a brasserie in the 15th arrondissement to tell them about his project: "to take the fight to the political level" because "we can have a measured vision of things, but politicians need to move, not just associations" (, Editor’s note).

Radars - Nicolas Dupont-Aignan enters the campaign against 80 km-h -

In front of a salmon chirasi followed by a coconut mango soup – all washed down with plain water -, the member for Debout la France immediately specifies that he is "naturally for road safety" and judges that "certain measures have been taken. useful for reducing the number of road deaths ".

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"I am not hostile to regulatory measures, even unpopular, but today we are multiplying the measures that I find delusional, which piss off everyone and which do not attack real dangerous drivers," he denounces. he. But "I hit a wall when I broach the subject with your colleagues from the political press, and the politicians are afraid of the Parisian media environment".

"Renationalize the highways"

The president of Debout la France therefore intends to fight against the drop in speed to 80 km / h – "a stupid measure which kills rurality" – because it is "not based on security reasons but on money. , the radar policy and the desire to send people to the highways, which I also want to renationalize. There are obviously interests behind this measure! "

In this fight, Nicolas Dupont-Aignan wants to embody "the voice that dares at the national level".

"For a decision to be respected, it must be respectable", recalls the member for Essonne, "but those who make these types of decisions no longer drive"…

"If there is no political relay on this affair, it could turn badly", estimates the deputy. "Now it is up to politicians to embody the aspirations of the French, not just to associations".

"Abandon the project without losing face"

Asked by Site on the possibility of requesting a commission of inquiry from the National Assembly, as if Road Safety did not provide them with the full results of the experiment, Mr. Dupont-Aignan informed us that in practice, "only majority deputies can do it "…

Radars - Nicolas Dupont-Aignan enters the campaign against 80 km-h -

No great hope on this side therefore, but the deputy – moreover very sympathetic, despite his connections with the National Front during the presidential election – does not admit defeat: "I will make these posters a political lever on the ground", explains the one who discovers with interest the wish of the bikers to: "’it is a good idea, I will support this request". 

"Yes, I think that we can obtain a postponement of the measure", concludes Nicolas Dupont-Aignan who unfortunately will not be able to participate in due to a trip to Lyon: "I make a major political fight and I will ask for a real experiment of 80 km / h for a year on all the roads of the department of Edouard Philippe, Seine-Maritime! This will allow the government to abandon the project without losing face "… Not won, but who don’t try anything…

Eric MICHEL

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