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“There will be others,” said government spokesman Olivier Véran on Tuesday morning.
Faced with the strikes put in place against the pension reform in the tricolor oil installations, the executive is carrying out its threats. This Tuesday morning, the government announced “the requisition of personnel essential to the operation of the Fos-sur-Mer oil depot“. A measure decided to deal with the fuel supply problems encountered by service stations in the south-east of France for a few days.
This measure, “valid for 48 hours“, concerned “three employees per shift», Specifies the Ministry of Energy Transition. The Fos-sur-Mer depot, managed by several operators, makes it possible to supply fuel to several departments in the South and Occitanie regions, and also ensures shipments by pipeline to the metropolis of Lyon. The requisitionsare in progress since last night” And “there will be others“Warned government spokesman Olivier Véran on Tuesday morning, adding that the executive would not hesitate to shoot this card as many times as necessary, in the face of blockages.
As of Tuesday morning, the CGT filed, through its lawyer, an appeal for interim relief before the administrative court with the aim of lifting this order of requisitions. The judge will have to render an emergency decision, within hours of the referral. The union believes that this obstacle to the right to strike, enshrined in the Constitution, is not justified in view of the situation. “I’m not doing it against the right to strike but for the French who need to move around, to go to work, to take their children to pass the baccalaureate exams“, declared the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, to justify her decision.
fuel shortages
This weekend, the executive had warned that he would not hesitate to set up requisitions of personnel, as with garbage collectors in Paris, if the strikes paralyzed the refineries of the territory. “We are not going to leave 65 million French men and women, and a country, together, blocked by a few dozen individuals“, affirmed the Minister Delegate in charge of Industry, Roland Lescure.
However, the situation in the Bouches-du-Rhône has worsened in recent days, with the blocking of oil installations: in this department, nearly 49% of fuel distribution sites are totally or partially out of stock. The neighboring territories of Gard (26.2%) and Vaucluse (24.8%) are also affected. “This blocking situation penalizes our fellow citizens, hinders the functioning of our country and threatens our economy.“, justifies the minister, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, in a press release. And to add that the requisitions remain “targeted» and concern a «very limited number of employees“. “I’m not doing it against the right to strike but for the French who need to move around, to go to work, to take their children to pass the baccalaureate exams“, also pleads the minister.