Juliette Moreau Alvarez
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11:22 a.m., December 04, 2022
“Emmanuel Macron obeys foreign interests and does not defend the national interest. It is a serious accusation, yes, that I assume.” Guest of the Grand Rendez-vous this Sunday on Europe 1 / CNews / Les Echos, the deputy of Essonne and president of Debout la France Nicolas Dupont-Aignan was very incisive on the energy policy of the government of Emmanuel Macron.
“It’s Alice in Wonderland”
According to the politician, Emmanuel Macron is “completely disconnected”: “It’s Alice in Wonderland, he lives on a cloud or he pretends”. While the situation is tense in France and the risk of power cuts this winter is becoming clearer, the deputy accuses Emmanuel Macron, responsible since his decision to close the Fessenheim nuclear power plant in 2020.
The beginning of the “destruction” of the nuclear sector in favor of renewable energies which are in the process of “killing France”: “The more wind turbines you put in which do not turn when there is no wind, the more you are obliged to import gas to supplement”, he explains. “Renewable energies are an environmental heresy, since it must be supplemented with carbon, a financial heresy and heresy in terms of energy efficiency.”
The closure of the Alsatian power plant is a “serious error” according to the former presidential candidate, “on the verge of high treason”: “Olivier Marleix has carried out a study and we wonder if there are no interests behind, German and American interests.” For Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Emmanuel Macron, today “obeys” Germany. The neighboring country “has always wanted to destroy French nuclear power, because it was an extraordinary comparative advantage for our companies, it was a tool for competitiveness, it offered a richer social system than in Germany”.
“Our leaders have failed”
Very accusatory remarks that the deputy hammers and repeats on Europe 1. “Our country is governed by a system of oligarchy, subject to foreign interests which plunder the country.” Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, meanwhile, wants to return to a national electricity price. If he does not accuse the tariff shield, which he salutes in particular for containing the rise in gas prices, he describes it as “absurd” on electricity. “It’s crazy, because we produce at 50 euros per megawatt and the electricians sell it at 400 euros.” The president of Debout la France proposes to return the price of electricity to the price of production, which would avoid the subsidy of the French and the companies.
One solution: follow the example of Spain and Portugal and leave the European tariff system. “They defended their industries” while France “has leaders who have failed,” he says. “We must return to EDF as we have known it, a unique company, in order to regain our economic sovereignty. That means a lot of upset interests”, underlines the deputy, “with all these private companies which have grown fat with false rates and which let subscribers down.” The latter are an aberration for Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. “We have to dissolve them.”
The power cuts this winter are therefore, for the deputy, a direct consequence of the dismantling of the nuclear industry by Emmanuel Macron, who was “not reassuring”, during his interview on TF1 this Saturday.