Sandrine Rousseau, deputy Europe Écologie-Les Verts de Paris, was the guest of the “8:30 a.m. franceinfo” on Wednesday October 12, 2022. Fuel shortage, Bayou affair, police protection… She answers questions from Marc Fauvelle and Salhia Brakhlia.
Requisitions: “I hope for a general strike movement”
The day after the announcement of the requisition of Esso-ExxonMobil personnel by Elisabeth Borne to release the deposits affected by a wage strike, at the call of the CGT, Sandrine Rousseau “hope this will be the spark that will trigger a general strike movement”. For her, the government “should put pressure on the management of Total rather than on the strikers” so that the group shares its profits with its employees.
Rebate on fuel: for “a policy targeted at those who absolutely need their car”
The chosen one makes the difference between the inhabitants of the cities and the countryside. “We need to have a policy targeted at those who absolutely need their car, where there is no alternative”, and developing free public transport for others. At the same time, she thinks that the tariff shield put in place by the government against rising energy prices is “a kind of lost fund”.
Energy: “We are the lame duck of Europe” in terms of renewables
The Green MP also believes that the government’s sobriety plan “is a scandal” and that’“we make fun of people”because “we are only on individual behavior, no public policy is implemented to allow people to consume less energy”. While nearly half of French nuclear reactors are shut down, Sandrine Rousseau denounces France’s dependence on nuclear power, for lack of sufficient investment in renewable energies. “I think nuclear power is at the end of its life. (…) We should have anticipated the fact that we have an energy crisis and we should have invested in renewable energies, which has not been done, we are the lame duck of Europe from that point of view.”
Sandrine Rousseau calls for a “framework” in the parties which ensures the “security” of the victim
The internal listening cell of Europe Écologie-Les Verts has been severely criticized since the beginning of the Bayou affair, for having heard neither the former party boss, Julien Bayou, nor his ex-companion who accused of psychological abuse. Sandrine Rousseau explains it in particular by the complicated positioning of the cell, responsible for investigating the director of his party. “When [ce type d’accusations] affects high-ranking people in a political party, we need a framework that fully guarantees the person who speaks security”she claims.
Quatennens case: “I would like us to work on the regulations of the National Assembly”
“I would like us to work on the regulations of the National Assembly so that Adrien Quatennens can withdraw for the time of the investigation and the instruction”, says Sandrine Rousseau. She wants the regulations to allow, in situations similar to that of the deputy La France insoumise du Nord who admitted having slapped his wife, that the elected representative withdraws from his mandate, without compensation but without resigning.
Sandrine Rousseau considers the assessment of the risk she incurs “indispensable”
The Ministry of the Interior has decided to launch an assessment of the threat against the elected Parisian, with a view to giving her, if it seems necessary, police protection. Sandrine Rousseau affirms that she has no “not asked” this police protection but “risk assessment [lui] seems essential” because she is indeed “threatened”. The MP has already filed three complaints and one person has been tried in immediate appearance.
March against expensive living: Jean-Luc Mélenchon launched a “call for revolt” and not “for violence”
Invited to comment a controversial tweet of the founder of La France insoumise who called on the French to “do better on October 16” during the march against the high cost of living than the march on Versailles on October 5 and 6, 1789. Sandrine Rousseau thinks that “Jean-Luc Mélenchon has no intention of cutting off anyone’s head at all, but rather of showing that power is in the street. I don’t think this is a call for violence, it’s a call to revolt”.
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