“It’s pure communication”, reacts Fabrice Coudour, federal secretary of the FNME-CGT

100% renationalise the energy company EDF, “It’s pure communication”, reacts on Wednesday June 6 on franceinfo Fabrice Coudour, the federal secretary of the National Federation of Mines and Energy CGT (FNME-CGT). Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced this government project a few hours earlier during her general policy statement before the National Assembly.

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“It’s pure communication”launches Fabrice Coudour, “and a prodigious sleight of hand because she never uttered the word and everyone is talking about renationalisation, because she only spoke of nationalization with a single shareholder State which will decide alone on the dismantling of EDF without any parliamentary debate, and because it never spoke of the failure of 20 years of the energy market, the source of all our problems and pointed out by the Court of Auditors in a report this week. “

“The most beautiful magic trick” continues the trade unionist, “is that it does not provide any solution for citizens and their bills.” For Fabrice Coudour, this announcement is not “certainly not” a return to public service.

“It’s a return to a situation where the state will decide alone, a return to the Hercules project of dismantling the company to sell to the friends of the CAC 40 all the pieces that pay off.”

Fabrice Coudour, Federal Secretary of the National Federation of Mines and Energy CGT (FNME-CGT)

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For the trade unionist, “it takes political courage. It goes through a real nationalization of the whole sector, starting with EDF in EPIC [Etablissement public à caractère industriel et commercial]. And above all, electricity and gas, which are basic necessities, must be taken out of the market. Also urgently lower the VAT to 5.5% to act on user bills and return to regulated sales rates.