Laura Laplaud
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08:58, December 07, 2022
France, soon without electricity? A scenario that we hear frequently at the moment and which does not please Emmanuel Macron. The head of state castigated these “scenarios of fear” assuring that France would “hold on”. But for the president of the LR group in the National Assembly, Olivier Marleix, the executive “did everything it took to scare us”.
Power cuts, blackouts… Arriving at a European summit in Tirana, Emmanuel Macron urged on Tuesday to put an end to the “absurd” debates and the “scenarios of fear” which are developing around possible power cuts this winter, assuring that France would “hold on” if everyone did “their job”. However, “the President of the Republic has given the feeling of governing by fear for many years”, affirmed the president of the group Les Républicains in the National Assembly, Olivier Marleix, guest of Europe Matin on Wednesday.
“The government has done everything necessary to scare us … The management of the fear of the French takes the place of the absence of direction” for Emmanuel Macron, insisted the deputy of Eure-et-Loir at the microphone from Europe 1.
“The French are right to be afraid”
“In this case, the French are right to be afraid,” he says. “RTE published a report a few days ago with the new scenarios for the availability of the nuclear fleet, and we learn that the nuclear fleet is still not there and will not be there.”
“The only way to get out of it when you have so little electricity available is to focus on lower consumption,” he added, deploring the shutdown of part of the production. of certain companies, faced with high energy inflation, thus leading to the explosion of their bills. “Companies have given up producing in our country! This is the case of William Saurin who announced that 80% of his production was going to be shut down. This is the case of a company like Trimet, which is France’s leading aluminum producer,” reported Olivier Marleix. “It is because companies are giving up production that we are able to spend the winter quietly, it is absolutely tragic as a situation”,