The Prime Minister was the JT guest of 20 hours of TF1, in order to discuss the strike movement in refineries and fuel deposits and the question of purchasing power.
Le Monde
How to get out of the crisis, while a third of the service stations are affected by fuel shortages? “I ask employees who remain on strike despite the majority agreement, to comply with this majority agreement and not to block the country with all the difficulties that it creates today for the French,” argued Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, Guest of the TF1 television news on Sunday October 16. “We must now regain work,” she added.
The Totalnergies strike continues in refineries and deposits, for lack of agreement with the CGT on wage increases, resulting in still significant consequences on many sectors of activity. The union intends to continue the movement until Tuesday, an interprofessional “mobilization and strike” to which FO, Solidaires and the FSU also called. “If there are very tense situations tomorrow, we will carry out requisitions,” warns Elisabeth Borne.
In total, “almost 30 %” of the country’s service stations were considered on Sunday as “in difficulty”, that is to say affected by the rupture of at least one of their products, according to Elisabeth Terminal, a slight worsening compared to the day before (27.3 %).
“Because of the weekend, it’s a bit degraded,” confirmed the Prime Minister, even if “it has improved a lot in Hauts-de-France”, where the government has proceeded Requisition of personnel to unlock the fuel deposits of the ESSO-Exxonmobil group. “I can assure you that the government is very mobilized to do everything that can be up to it,” she said, pointing to the mobilization of strategic stocks of the State to reappoens the service stations.
The Prime Minister has added that the government plans to extend at least until mid-November the discount of 30 cents on the price of the liter of fuel. She also said he had to hold, from Total himself, that the oil group will extend his 20 cents per liter.