An agreement aimed at reducing the prices of food products by 20% was signed on Wednesday evening between the State and distributors, but the collective behind the mobilization against the high cost of living since September 1 is calling for ” continue the movement.
An agreement, but a continuing crisis: the State announced on the evening of Wednesday October 16 that it had signed an agreement, particularly with distributors, to reduce food prices by “20% on average” in Martinique, the scene since September of a mobilization against the high cost of living.
This agreement, reached on Wednesday evening in Fort-de-France at the end of a seventh round of negotiations and announced by the prefect of Martinique, was however not signed by the collective Rally for the Protection of African Peoples and Resources. Caribbean (RPPRAC), at the origin of the mobilization since September 1, which slammed the door and called to “continue the movement”.
“The accumulation of collective efforts provided for in the protocol will allow hypermarkets to make a reduction of 20% on average in the sales prices currently practiced on a list of 54 families of products corresponding to the most consumed food products in Martinique”, a writes the prefect in a press release.
With AFP
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