The government will launch a mission to identify and then fight against economic monopolies in the overseas territories, sources of “very high prices”, particularly in French Polynesia, announced Sunday August 20 the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
“I will launch a mission as soon as I return to Paris with Philippe Vigier, Minister of Overseas, to establish the monopolies”, starting with French Polynesia, said Mr. Darmanin during an interview granted Saturday evening to Papeete (Sunday morning in Paris) on local television channels Polynésie la 1re and Tahiti Nui TV.
“I hear the president [of Polynesia, Moetai Brotherson, separatist] when he invites us to fight against economic monopolies. There are too many economic monopolies overseas in general and in French Polynesia,” he said. “We are going to propose to President Brotherson to fight together against these monopolies because when there are monopolies, there are very high prices and when there are very high prices it is the Polynesians on a daily basis who cannot manage to s ‘get out of it,’ added the Minister of the Interior.
Gérald Darmanin began a visit to French Polynesia on Wednesday in the company, in particular, of the Minister of Sports and the Olympic Games (JO), Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, with whom he visited the Teahupoo site in Tahiti, which will host next July the surfing events of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Also accompanied by Philippe Vigier, Gérald Darmanin also spoke about the fight against global warming and the economic development of the Polynesian “country”, and supported the inclusion of the Marquesas Islands as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.