"Sobriety cannot simply be a turtleneck or a tancarville."
Guest of Public Senate, Senator LR Bruno Retailleau sets the tone.
While the government is preparing this Thursday to unveil its energy sobriety plan, the content of which we will reveal to you this Wednesday, the political class has criticized a plan “in communication” and castigated the lack of energy sovereignty.
An energy sobriety plan yet "perfectly harmonized", defended the European Commissioner Thierry Breton interviewed on BFMTV.
“We made recommendations.
If each Member State follows them, there is harmonisation.
The measures taken are coordinated between States”.
A critique of energy policy
The LR presidential candidate and deputy for Lot Aurélien Pradié for his part fired red balls at the government's energy policy before this crisis: "If the sobriety plan is intended to make people forget the strategic errors of this country for a few years and particularly of this government, then it is without me.
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➡On the #sobriety plan
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"In recent years, we have lost our energy sovereignty (...) The real subject is to relaunch the civilian nuclear force and put our feet in the dish on the European market electricity"
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— LCI (@LCI) October 6, 2022
“In recent years, we have lost most of our energy sovereignty.
The real subject is how we restart our nuclear power plants, ”he said, guest of LCI.
Xavier Bertrand believes for his part on France Info "that there are still not many French people who were in abundance".
Even if it is necessary "to be careful, it is obvious", the president of the Hauts-de-France region considers that the most important "is to understand how we arrived at this situation of dependence", pointing in particular the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant.
"Spending the winter without cuts and without exploding prices, that's what I expect from the government today."
🗣 Sobriety plan: "I still don't think there are many French people who were in abundance", estimates Xavier Bertrand, president of the Hauts-de-France region pic.twitter.com/AHpD8vdA6O
— franceinfo (@franceinfo) October 6, 2022
The absence of a price cap for companies is also in the sights of the opposition.
“The bosses are now waiting for electricity and energy prices to be capped.
I regret that the government does not act ”, regretted on CNews Jordan Bardella, candidate for the presidency of the National Rally.
“Too much communication”
“When the government gives us fashion shows in sweaters, under-sweaters… we would like them to stop making puppets and take serious measures.
The crisis is not simply knowing how we are going to spend this winter, but how we are going to spend the decades to come, ”denounced on France Info Jérémie Crépel, deputy national secretary of EELV.
“The government is too much in the communication”, criticized Bruno Retailleau, who proposes instead of generalized cuts, via the Linky counters “a few minutes of erasure in rush hour for the volunteers”.
He assures that this would "save 2.5 to 3 EPR" and "give back purchasing power to the French".
Sobriety: "The government is in the infantilization and the communication. A few minutes of erasure at peak hour for the volunteers would allow us to save 2.5 to 3 EPR. We would price this and we would reimburse it."
@BrunoRetailleau #BonjourChezVous pic.twitter.com/qctJUg7SV9
— Public Senate (@publicsenat) October 6, 2022
The speech of the government "stands from above overlooking the French (…) like a schoolmaster in front of his students", regretted the Vendée senator.
