Electricity invites itself into the presidential campaign. Thursday evening, the government blocked the price increase at 4%. An announcement that immediately made Marine Le Pen react, visiting this Friday, January 14 in the Côtes d’Armor, in Brittany, where a gigantic offshore wind farm is to be installed in the bay of Saint-Brieuc.
With our special correspondent in Erquy, Pierre Olivier
Binoculars screwed on the eyes, Marine Le Pen stares at the open sea, where 62 wind turbines 200 meters high are to be installed, to the great dismay of the fishermen.
” We are driven out of these fishing areas to install these wind turbines “says a participant. ” If one day there isn’t a sailor who commits suicide, well, I won’t understand “adds another.
” We’re going to stop that, we’re going to stop offshore wind power, we’re going to stop parks on land too “, promises them the candidate of the National Rally.
Stop the wind projects put in place by successive governments, promises Marine Le Pen, who also takes the opportunity to tackle one of her right-wing competitors.
Allow me to recall that at the time of the awarding of this call for tenders, a certain Valérie Pécresse was Budget Minister and her husband, Jérôme Pécresse, headed the wind subsidiary of Alstom which won the other three contracts
As for the government’s decision to limit the rise in the price of electricity – a measure “hastily mocked the candidate, before rolling out her measures for a lasting reduction in tariffs.
First of all the reduction in VAT on electricity from 20% to 5.5, I will remove subsidies for intermittent energies such as wind or solar, ie 4 billion euros.
This trip to a small port, next to a wind farm, could not fit better with the news and allows Marine le Pen to appear as the candidate of forgotten territories.
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