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These are unpopular measures I know he said

The time is appeasement between UMP deputies and the French Government in the controversy on the radar, threatening to turn to the political crisis.

The Minister of the Interior, Claude Guéant, announced Tuesday the majority parliamentarians a series of measures that has chastened anger, without however returning on the principle of removing signs announcing radar, the origin of the frond.

The creation in the Assembly of a fact-finding mission on the causes of road accidents and the announcement by the Government of its willingness to discuss with representatives of motorists and the manufacturers of radar detectors helped to defuse tensions.

Claude Guéant has especially focused on installation of teaching radar, which simply report their speed to motorists and are popular with protesters members.

The latter is were particularly moved the decision announced by the Government to remove the panels indicating the fixed radar

According to the President of the UMP in the Assembly, Christian Jacob, group Claude Guéant announced Tuesday to members that there would be consultation at the local level before the dismantling of these panels and that each dismantled Panel would be replaced by pedagogical radar.

"It will also occasionally teaching radar without fixed radar but there will be a pedagogical radar before each fixed radar," said Christian Jacob.

NEITHER WINNER NOR LOSER

Richard Mallié, which was originally a letter signed by some 80 deputies Monday to the Prime Minister, accused remain deaf to protests by the measures announced by the Government, welcomed the provisions unveiled Tuesday.

"I say that there is a phenomenal achievement," said member of Parliament for the Bouches in the corridors of the Assembly after the traditional meeting of the bureau of the UMP group, attended as every Tuesday by François Fillon.

"There is no loser or winner." There are members who are there to express that feel our fellow citizens. "We discussed with the Executive, it is our role," said Richard Mallié.

If it gave the impression of a release of ballast, the Executive has not month reaffirmed its determination to combat the increase of road mortality in France.

Breakfast weekly of the leaders of the majority in the Elysee Palace, Nicolas Sarkozy and repeated that it would be "inflexible" on the objective of reducing the number of dead and injured on the roads, participants have reported.

"The April figures are catastrophic." "If one does nothing, it will leave lasting upward," said the head of State in substance, according to one of them.

The President added, however, that it was the Prime Minister to find the modalities of implementation of the goal of reduction of the victims of the road, said another leader of the majority.

NATIONAL SPORT

The Group UMP of the Assembly was violently criticized road safety measures adopted on 11 may by the Government, especially the end of the fixed radar signals.

Particularly within the frond, François Fillon pleaded Tuesday for a necessary firmness.

"These are unpopular measures, I know," he said. "Road safety measures have never been unanimity in a country where the national sport is not respecting the rules."

Before the meeting Tuesday, Philippe Meunier, Member of UMP du Rhône, had reported that the time was serious.

"We must go out from the top of this case, that may indeed lead to a political crisis within the majority", said on Europe 1 this member of the people's right, right wing of the UMP in advanced on this issue.

The number of deaths on French roads has increased by 20 in April from the same month in 2010, with 355 death. Road accidents kill approximately 4,000 people each year in France.