French president Macron: Anger in our country is deep and legitimate promise a 100 euro raise

The president of france Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech weeks of suurmielenosoitusten. The French president is trying to appease the people, which has in recent weeks left in large numbers to the streets. The archive image. EPA / AOP

Macron said in his speech that people's anger is deep and it is fully justified. He lamented that for the first half year of have been able to meet over the last 40 years gave birth to a bad feeling.

He also said that they understand that some of his speeches have hurt people.

Macron said he believes that he can find a way to solve the French and French current problems. He said that he had asked the government to increase the smaller salaries in hundreds of euros per month since January.

in addition to This tax increase, which applies to less than two thousand euros a month in retirement living, is cancelled.

Macronin according to dialogue and mutual respect are prerequisites for changes can be achieved.

France has in recent weeks been a number of large so-called ”yellow vest” demonstrations, some of which have turned into a case of violent clashes with the police. The protests began diesel tax increase of resisting, but they have since refined themselves of the general discontent terms ' Macronin reforms.

Macron has driven policy, which aims to improve the competitiveness of enterprises, but the middle class and the economically most disadvantaged have experienced had come to ignore. People are outraged, for example, the wealthiest get more tax relief, which Macronin the government tried to prevent tax evasion and encourage to invest in France.

the fuel tax increases were cancelled earlier and finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Monday its intention to accelerate, inter alia, income tax discounts.

the Opinion polls of the people, a large majority has supported the yellow vest. Among the demonstrators were people from many different social layers of young pensioners. The violence, the police have accused the extreme right-and left-wing agitators.

Macron started his tv speech in the evening at nine o'clock Finnish time.

This seemed to riots in Paris a few days ago: the Police subdued the rioting with tear gas.