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The National Assembly of France voted in favor of lifting the low -ejection zones, the key measure made during the first term of President Emmanuel Macron to reduce the city’s pollution.
So -called zfes (Low emissions) were criticized for suffering those who could not afford less pollutants.
Several Macron Macron MPs have joined the opposition parties from the right and extreme in voting 98-51 to trim areas that have been gradually expanded in French cities since 2019.
This movement was made by Pierre Murin with the extreme right -wing national rally and supported by some car organizations.
But it was a personal victory for the writer Alexander Jardin, who created a movement called #Gueux (Beggars). Claiming that “ecology has turned into a sport for the rich.”
“Everyone played a role in the vote. The deputies voted either for the end of this nightmare or they abstained,” he said Le Figaro newspapers.
“They were afraid to return to their constituencies when they voted against the cancellation of zfes.”
Low -ejection areas began with the 15 most polluted cities in 2019 and were distributed to each urban area with a population of more than 150,000 before this year, with a ban on a car registered before 1997.
Those who are produced after 1997 need a round “Crit’air” sticker to drive a car in low -level zones, and there are six categories that correspond to different types of vehicle.
The biggest restrictions were applied in the most contaminated cities, Paris and Lyon, as well as montpellier and Grenobel.
They turned into something lightning for macron opponents.
Marin Le Pen condemned ZFES as “impassable zones” during her presidential campaign for a national rally in 2022, and her communist colleague warned of a “social bomb”.
The head of the right -wing Republicans in the Assembly, Laurent Vakies, told about “the release of the French from suppressing, punitive ecology”, and in the far left, Klimes Ghet said that green policy should not be imposed “on the back of the work classes”.
The government tried to go from the uprising on Wednesday night, watering the restrictions, but also retaining the zones in Paris and Lyon. This amendment was defeated by a large separation.
The Agnier-Runacher Green Crossing Minister said that “air pollution is lagging behind almost 40,000 premature deaths a year … and the low-ejection areas helped reduce (this number).”
Green and socialists also voted in favor of maintaining zones.
Green Senator Anne Siris said BFMTV that “murder (ZFES) also means killing hundreds of thousands,” and Socialist MP Gerard Lesel said the vote had directed a negative signal because it did not affect the reduction that had to be made to the level of air pollution.
It is expected that the cancellation will pass through the upper house, the French Senate, but it still needs to be approved in a wider bill in the lower house in June, and it must be approved by the French Constitutional Council, which is not guaranteed.
