Public group employees launched a strike on Wednesday, January 26, as a result of the State’s decision to sell more electricity to its competitors to attempt to contain the invoice of households and Companies.
Le Monde with AFP
Less than three months of the presidential election, the purchasing power is at the center of the attention of the government and the oppositions, which compete with proposals. To attempt to contain the invoice of households and businesses, the state has asked EDF to sell more electricity to its competitors to honor its promise to limit the increase in the regulated tariffs of the Electricity in 2022. Cauguating the wrath of employees, who are on strike, Wednesday, January 26th.
“This constitutes a spoliation and an unacceptable fragility of Electricity of France, public operator,” in particular denounce the unions in a letter addressed on Tuesday, to the Minister of the Economy, Bruno the Mayor, who specified that this measure would have “a cost for EDF between 7.7 billion and 8.4 billion euros depending on the market prices”.
“Common”
An operation that has reacted the 75-day opposition of the first round of the presidential election. The candidate for the extreme right election Eric Zemmour has challenged this morning, On the Plateau of Public Senate , the decision of the State and ranked on the side of the employees on strike, on the provision: “for demagogic reasons, the government and Europe are In the process of killing EDF. “” For years, EDF has gained enough money and can not invest, “explained the reconquest candidate!.
David Lisnard, President (LR) of the Association of Mayors of France (AMF) estimated on RMC that the state was “sacrificing EDF for cyclical pre-election measures”. The Communist candidate, Fabien Roussel A, he, reminded that he wants to bet on the nuclear for the energy autonomy of France, and wants to nationalize EDF and ENGIE 100% and said on FranceInfo: “I want to take out electricity from the market because it is a common good. “
For its part, the boss of the deputies of the Republic (LRM) lamented this strike in the public group. “No, I do not understand it, because when you have the pride of being in a public company like EDF, you also assume to contribute to national solidarity,” he said Wednesday morning on France 2. recalled that EDF was “a public enterprise held at 80% by the state [which is therefore part] of the heritage of the French” and assured that the price of electricity would have “increased by 44%” without the measures taken by the government. “When EDF has had difficulties, the state has always been present. And the state will always be present,” said Castaner.