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While the threat of electricity and gas cuts plane on winter, the mayor Rassemblement national de Perpignan believes that this situation results from “bad choices”, in particular on nuclear power.
“If we had made other energy choices, we wouldn’t be here.“, affirmed the mayor Rassemblement national (RN) of Perpignan, Louis Aliot, Tuesday September 6 on franceinfo, when he was questioned on the energy crisis. The day before, Emmanuel Macron announced that France was committed to deliver more gas to Germany, which could supply it with electricity, if the energy crisis required it this winter.false solidarity“, according to the candidate for the presidency of the RN.
The latter criticizes the Head of State for being “obtuse“. Now, for him, “in the face of the obvious, you still have to ask yourself the right questions“.”When the obvious is finally that nuclear power protects us a little bit from what is happening, we may say to ourselves that some bad choices have been made, the closure of Fessenheim, etc.“, he adds.
“You also have to know how to examine your conscience well sometimes and say ‘we have gone in the wrong direction, now there is an emergency, let’s take the right direction and in this energy mix, let’s steer towards research, innovation and in particular on the cleaner nuclear“, adds the chosen one.
The National Rally has not always had the same position on nuclear power. In 2012, Marine Le Pen, then a presidential candidate, pleaded for an exit from the atom. “We are not in government“, evacuates Louis Aliot.