Like a few weeks ago, Clément Beaune cast doubt on Friday, May 26, on the A69 file. Highway or no highway? This strategy of uncertainty does not seem to reassure the “pros”, nor satisfy the hopes of the “antis”.
Guest of the show “My France”on France Bleu on May 26, Clément Beaune had to clarify the government’s position in the thorny issue of the A69 for the umpteenth time. “There are projects that we will suspend, that we will abandon. There are some that we will continue. The A69 is the most mature, the most advanced. So I think the State of right, it is that he continues”he advanced.
However, thee The Way Is Free Collective, who opposes the construction of the A69 met, the day before this interview, with the office of the Minister of Transport, Clement Beaune foralert to the imperative and urgent reasons to suspend the construction site of the A69 motorway Castres-Toulouse.” They claim to have had a much more mixed response: “We were very surprised at the content of the discussion, what was very interesting is that we were told from the start that the work had started, that there was an obstacle. Nothing of the sort, the minister’s adviser told us that the work was preliminary.”
A legal appeal will be filed during the month of June by the opponents, concerning the environmental authorization which allowed the start of the work. “What the minister told us, we take it like an open hand. We are not going to give up. It has to go further. There has to be a real territorial project in the South-Tarn. There is a difference in perception between the ministry and local elected officials”said the activists on May 26 during a press conference organized in Vendine (Tarn).
Like a deja vu…
On the side of the defenders, among many elected officials and business leaders, many are annoyed by these mobilizations of opponents. “This project is signed, legal, legitimate, useful and expected”, hammered in early April the centrist senator Philippe Folliot. As for the Renaissance deputy Jean Terlier, elected in the Tarn, he tackled “a minority perched on trees”. This same deputy had questioned the Minister of Transport at the beginning of May in the hemicycle, the latter had been reassuring.
However, a few days earlier, Clément Beaune seemed to be backpedaling, in an interview with Franceinfo, he said that the A69 project would be reviewed in June.
An attitude that reassures neither the “antis” nor the pros. An emergency meeting was held between several local actors in favor of the project. “We are simply waiting for the State to keep its commitments and go through with this project. We are obviously for freedom of expression but we are also for our country to move forward“, reminded our microphone the president of the Tarn department, Christopher Raymond.
The vague, changing position of the executive could fuel tensions between the two camps… Already well anchored.
2023-05-27 03:15:15
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