France’s National Assembly has voted for the abolition of low-eminent sectors, which was an important step introduced by President Emmanuel Macron’s first period to reduce urban pollution.
So -called zfes (Low emission) Those who are unable to get low pollutant vehicles hardly have been criticized for beating.
Macron’s party’s handful of MPs joined the opposition parties by right and force in 98-51 voting to scrap the zones, which has been gradually expanded in French cities since 2019.
The movement was put forward by the right -wing national rally, Pierre Murin, and was supported by some motorizing organizations.
But this was a personal victory for writer Alexandre Jordin, he founded the movement called him #Gueux (Beggars), “Ecology has become a sport for the rich,” he argued.
“Everyone has played their role in the vote. MPs voted at the end of the nightmare, or they abandoned,” he told Le Figaro newspaper.
“If they voted against the eradication of Zfes they were afraid of going back to their constituencies.”
The low-eminent zones began with 15 more contaminated cities in France in 2019, and by the beginning of this year, it was expanded to each urban area with a population of more than 150,000, banned on cars before 1997.
Those who produce after 1997 need a round “Krit'” sticker to drive in low-eminating zones, and there are six sections that correspond to a variety of vehicles.
The largest restrictions have been applied in Paris and Leon, as well as in Montpelier and Grenobo.
He has become a lightning rod for Macron’s opponents.
During the presidential campaign for the national rally in 2022, Marine Le Pen condemned the Zfes as “No-Rights Zones”, and his communist counterpart warned about the “social bomb”.
Laurent Wauquij, head of the right -wing Republicans of the Assembly, said, “Hardening the French, freeing from punishment” and on the remote left side, the green policies should not be imposed on the back of the working class.
The government tried to dispose of the rebellion on Wednesday night by watering the restrictions, but preserves zones in Paris and Leon. The amendment was defeated by a large margin.
Green Transition Minister Agnes Pannier-Ranachar said, “Air pollution is behind about 40,000 premature deaths a year … and low-emitting zones have helped to roll (that number).”
Greens and socialists also voted to manage the zones.
The Green Senator on Souris said, “Killing (ZFES) means killing hundreds of thousand people” and Socialist MP Gerard Lesul sent a voting signal because the voting sent a negative signal because it does not solve the cuts to be made to the level of air pollution.
The eradication is expected to go through the upper house of France’s Senate, but it still has to be approved in the lowest bill of the lower house in June and it has to be approved by the Constitutional Board of France, which is not guaranteed.
