She recognizes an “error”.
Two days after a tweet which earned her a succession of taunts on social networks, the rebellious deputy Clémentine Autain, justified herself at the microphone of Sud Radio.
In the latter, she lamented a delay of the train in which she was and regretted the "privatization" of the SNCF.
“Train at the platform for quite a while, and this voice announcing a delay of… 2 hours!
Since the #SNCF privatization, we know when we leave, never when we arrive.
Since Thatcher's England, we know how it ends: by a renationalisation.
All that for that… “, could we read Sunday at the end of the day.
Train at the platform for quite a while, and this voice announcing a delay of... 2 hours!
Since the #SNCF privatization, we know when we leave, never when we arrive.
Since Thatcher's England, we know how it ends: by a renationalisation.
All that for that... pic.twitter.com/BOVzUqaVKp
— Clementine Autain (@Clem_Autain) January 15, 2023
The reactions multiplied, Internet users reminding the elected representative of the 11th district of Seine-Saint-Denis, that the State was the sole shareholder of the SNCF.
Clément Beaune, the Minister of Transport had himself taken care to respond to the MP on the social network.
“Privatization?
!
We are talking about a 100% public company.
A little respect for the railway workers and for the truth… Yes, there is a lot to do and improve.
But it's better to start from the facts and not from "#fake news", he wrote on Sunday evening.
“The correct term is liberalisation”
Guest of Sud Radio this Wednesday morning, Clémentine Autain tried to justify the use of this term.
"Twitter's problem is that we always write quickly and in 240 characters", she began, explaining that she was annoyed to cash a delay of "two hours on a 4:40 journey".
She says that she traveled on the Paris-Toulouse axis, favoring the train over the plane.
“I make a mistake on the term, she acknowledged, because there is no privatization, the exact term is liberalization.
If I put privatization, it is because I compared this situation to that of England, ”she continued.
🔴 Privatization of the #SNCF: @Clem_Autain claims to have "made a mistake"
🗣️ "I withdraw this term privatization. It is improper. What I wanted to say is that opening up to competition and liberalization lead to a deteriorating traffic"
📺https://t.co/gcFK7ds9Mo pic.twitter.com/c7xg8W7WNR
— Sud Radio (@SudRadio) January 17, 2023
"Opening up to competition and the fact that whole sections are gradually given to the private sector and that the management is aligned with the private sector, that gives results which are results such as we have known with EDF and with the Post Office and today with the SNCF”, she justifies.
And to conclude: “I withdraw this term privatization because it is inappropriate.
But the bottom line of what I wanted to say is that this phenomenon of opening up to competition and liberalization inevitably leads to a deterioration in traffic”.