The meeting will be held at 6:30 a.m. this Monday, January 29, by the union organizations and taxi drivers’ federations. In the parking lot of the Matmut Atlantique stadium, some 800 vehicles are expected from all over Gironde, but also from Charente-Maritime, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne and Pyrénées-Atlantiques, for a day of mobilization against the new agreement linking these professionals to the primary health insurance funds of each department, governing the pricing of patient transport.
“We’re not here to annoy people,” assures Éric Roulière-Laumonier. But on the eve of the implementation of these new conventions, having not been the subject of any consultation with those concerned, “we must make ourselves heard and understood. Because it is your fathers and your mothers that we are transporting to the hospital,” underlines the president of the Bordeaux Métropole Gironde taxi union, affiliated with the National Federation of Independent Taxis.
At 8 a.m., when the Bordeaux ring road is experiencing one of its peaks in traffic, the drivers will enter it for a snail operation. Two convoys are announced to invest the inner and outer ring roads, “and meet at the François-Mitterrand bridge”, announces the union representative who coordinated the action.
At interchange 21, the convoy coming from the inner ring road will then enter Quai Wilson and Boulevard des Frères-Moga, along the Garonne, towards the quays of Bordeaux, which it will go up to at rue Lucien-Faure. From there, the demonstrators will take the boulevards, up to the Saint-Augustin barrier.
During this time, the other part of the convoy, passing through the outer ring road, will also have reached Quai Wilson, to enter the boulevards, from Boulevard Jean-Jacques-Bosc.
All the demonstrators joining rue du Général-Larminat, the procession will then head towards the city center, via the cours du Général Juin, rue du Corps-Franc-Pommiès and rue Jean-Fleuret, to reach the prefecture . This is where a delegation of representatives of professional organizations of taxi drivers from different departments will be received at 3 p.m. “We will then see, when we leave, the follow-up to be given to our movement,” announces Éric Roulière-Laumonier. But whatever the outcome of the movement, several hours will be necessary for the demonstrators to disperse.
2. Angry farmers meet in Langon
After Bordeaux last week, the town of Langon in South-Gironde will be paralyzed by a demonstration of angry farmers this Monday. The Viti 33 Collective at the origin of this mobilization is calling for a grubbing plan commensurate with the problem of wine overproduction and the arrival of the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau. “We won’t move until he comes down to see us,” says Didier Cousiney, spokesperson for the collective, and mayor of Pian-sur-Garonne.
And the responses given by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, this Friday, January 29, do not seem to have calmed the discontent. “More than ever we continue, we receive more and more calls from farmers who will come from all over the department, and even from Agen. All agricultural professions are expected,” says the elected official.
Thus, from 5:30 a.m., farmers will gather on the Aquitaine roundabout, the motorway toll roundabout and the Route de Bazas roundabout, in Langon. The town will only be accessible via Saint-Pierre-de-Mons and Auros. In the afternoon, around 2 p.m., a procession of tractors and agricultural machinery will make a snail-like round trip operation on the A 62 motorway between the Langon and Podensac interchanges. School transport which serves the town will also be suspended all day.
If the demands were not heard, Didier Cousiney does not hide that the mobilization could continue in the following days. “We have already planned the sleeping bags and tents. We will even go to Bordeaux if necessary,” he warned.
Wanting only “a peasant mobilization”, the spokesperson does not want to see political or union messages. “We of course accept everyone, but it is not a political movement. It is an agricultural gathering, without a union or political banner. »
The Peasant Confederation still announced its presence, while affirming that there would be no sign of belonging. “We have decided to play the game, that does not prevent you from brandishing signs and banners with your slogans, the main goal is to be present in numbers,” she assured in a press release.
2024-01-28 17:41:07
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