All means are good to protest against the pension reform, according to its opponents. Among them, targeted and voluntary power cuts are planned. But Agnès Pannier-Runacher warned that these practices are not “legal”. The Minister for Energy Transition thus encouraged people to file a complaint against the power cuts threatened by the CGT.
“It’s bullying, and it’s not legal,” said Tuesday on RMC the Minister, warning of the risk of “breaking” certain industrial installations if the electricity is cut off. “It will be the arrested companies that will file a complaint, it is up to them to do so (…)”, she suggested, “and we, in our role, will enforce the law”. “We can be against a bill, we can demonstrate, we can talk about it strongly on television sets, but intimidation is unacceptable,” she repeated.
A deputy affected by a cut
The first union in the electrical and gas industries branch (IEG) whose special pension scheme would be abolished, the CGT Mines-Energie warned Monday that it would not refrain from anything “until the withdrawal” of the project.
Limited voluntary cuts have already taken place last week targeting a Renaissance MP for Lot, the city center of Montpellier, as well as a thousand customers in an industrial zone in Massy (Essonne) and administrations including the prefecture of Haute- Marne at Chaumont.