Sign of the importance of the subject, the two heads of the executive went up to the niche and the ministers tried all weekend to move the situation.
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The government had placed last week under the sign of sobriety, with the presentation, Thursday, October 6, of the energy economy plan. But it is the word shortage that was invited to the agenda. In recent days, images of the queues of ranging motorists to make the refuel have multiplied in many regions. A situation caused in part by several strike movements in refineries and deposits of Totalnergies and Esso-Exxonmobil fuel stations, ten days ago.
Friday October 7, after an informal European summit in Prague, Emmanuel Macron tried to appease the situation. “Here I really want to have a message (…) of call for calm, said the President of the Republic before inviting” each and everyone to the responsibility. All the wage demands are legitimate, but they must not prevent each other from living and being able to circulate. “
“The situation will improve throughout the week, promised, on Sunday, October 9, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne on the sidelines of a trip to Algeria. The measures we have taken have increased the Deliveries of 20 % compared to the usual flows. “” It takes time for flows to the right place and that it compensates for the overconsumption effect that appeared in certain areas, “it is still said to the Ministry of the energy transition.
The day after a meeting with the carriers, Agnès Pannier Runacher, the Minister of Energy Transition, announced, on Saturday, the release of strategic stocks, the mobilization of oil operators called upon to increase imports and the authorization of Circulate trucks on weekends to supply the service stations. Agnès Pannier Runacher and her colleague in charge of transport, Clément Beaune, also multiplied the contacts with all the parties during the weekend, in particular with totalnergies which proposed to advance the salary negotiations initially planned in mid-November, but Also with union centers.
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Agnès Pannier-Runacher also obtained managers from Esso-Exxonmobil that they bring together the unions on Monday October 10, and hopes that an agreement will be found quickly. “The Esso and Total directions have clearly made openings vis-à-vis employees representatives today, says the Minister. We have had discussions, me and my teams, with the various union organizations in recent days. I have heard messages of responsibility. It must now materialize quickly and that social dialogue is done in the rules. “
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