The national secretary ofEurope Écologie-Les Verts, support for Yannick Jadot in the presidential campaign, was the guest of 8:30 a.m. franceinfo, Thursday February 3, 2022.
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Julien Bayou, national secretary of Europe Ecology the Greens (EELV), was the guest of 8:30 a.m. franceinfo, Thursday February 3. He answered questions from Sahlia Brakhlia and Marc Fauvelle.
“Cancel” contracts between highway companies and the state
“Our wish is to cancel this contract” between motorway companies and the State, assured franceinfo Julien Bayou, national secretary of Europe Ecology-The Greens (EELV), in reaction to the increase of around 2% in the price of tolls on February 1. These contracts provide for an automatic increase in toll rates every year on that date, depending in particular on inflation and the works undertaken on the network.
“It’s an incredible gift given to motorway concessionaires by the right” and “it’s racketeering”insisted the support of Yannick Jadot, pointing to former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin as well as Emmanuel Macron.
Nuclear “does not ensure the autonomy of the country”
According to Julien Bayou, nuclear power plants “are not in a position to ensure the country’s energy autonomy.This winter, we have a problem with the supply of electrical energy due to failures or shutdowns of the power stations.”
However, there is no question of abandoning the atom overnight.“We want to organize the exit in 30 years, so I’m not telling you that we have to close all the plants right away”, hammered Julien Bayou. If we have to “organizing the transition”, according to him, it is also“because the price of nuclear power is soaring”. “Stubbornness in nuclear means preventing the development of renewable energies which create more jobs”, he added