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No skiing at the beginning of February: Laurent Wauquiez denounces "a potential cataclysm"

2021-01-21T13:02:08.115Z


LR president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez deplored Thursday the non-reopening of ski lifts in ski resorts in early February, announced the day before by the government, denouncing a " potential cataclysm for tens of thousands of jobs ". " The impact of the decisions we learned yesterday is catastrophic, these decisions potentially represent a cataclysm for tens of thousands


LR president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region Laurent Wauquiez deplored Thursday the non-reopening of ski lifts in ski resorts in early February, announced the day before by the government, denouncing a "

potential cataclysm for tens of thousands of jobs

".

"

The impact of the decisions we learned yesterday is catastrophic, these decisions potentially represent a cataclysm for tens of thousands of jobs in our country

", declared Mr. Wauquiez during a video conference to the press. .

Read also: Ski resorts fear they will be closed for the February holidays

The reality of the mountains is often very modest people whose salaries depend on these few months during which they work relentlessly (...) What they are asking for is not help but work

” , he insisted, also noting that "

people who have invested risk losing everything

".

On Wednesday, the Secretary of State for Tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne announced that the ski lifts of the ski resorts "will

not reopen on February 1

", admitting that in view of the health situation the sector was moving towards "

a season white

”.

According to the elected officials of the mountain, the decision of the executive puts at risk 250 stations, 120,000 jobs and 9 billion euros in revenue for the country.

Mr. Wauquiez, at the origin in December of a referral to the Council of State against the government's decision to close the ski lifts for the Christmas holidays, regretted that the government had "

maintained false hopes

" among the actors of the mountain, of which he says he understands "

the anger and the bitterness

".

"

We did not allow the mountain to anticipate, we pushed back endlessly from week to week without any commitment made having been kept," he said.

Today there is the feeling that this decision had already been taken before Christmas and that we would have saved a lot of time by announcing this measure at Christmas, which would have allowed the actors of the mountain to anticipate

”.

Read also: The ski resorts will not reopen on February 1 and should remain closed for the entire 2021 season

To "

protect the actors of the mountain and avoid the destruction of thousands of jobs

", the president of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, "

which represents 80% of the

economic

energy

" of the mountain according to him, asked "

urgently the holding of a crisis meeting around the Prime Minister, the ministers concerned and all the components of the mountain

”.

At the regional level, Mr. Wauquiez will also organize a crisis conference next week to establish a diagnosis and define a crisis plan for the mountains.

Source: lefigaro

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