A few days after Jean-Pierre Bosino, the PCF mayor of Montataire, in the Oise, threatened to stop paying his city’s electricity bills due to soaring prices, the subject bounced back to the occasion of the Festival of Humanity on Saturday 10 September. The communist Fabien Roussel now calls on the mayors to set up a ” face of refusal “, which does not please the government.
Close swimming pools and theaters, no longer heating schools or retirement homes, this is according to Fabien Roussel what threatens thousands of French cities due to soaring energy prices. So the boss of the Communist Party says ” stop » :
” It is not up to mayors to make this terrible choice. It’s always the same ones who toast, and well stop. I call on the mayors to return to resistance », announces Fabien Roussel.
Invited to debate with the communist leader at the occasion of the Festival of Humanitythe Minister of Public Accounts Gabriel Attal also said “ stop »… to the proposal of « strike “. ” I don’t believe in the bill strike. In the end there is always someone who pays. And so I think telling communities not to pay the bill is not a call for resistance, but a call for surrender. I don’t agree with this line “, he launched, booed by the public.
But according to Green MP Sabrina Sebaihi, the movement has already started and could even extend, in particular to HLM tenants: “ Social landlords pass on this price increase to tenants. Sometimes 30 euros per month, when it is already people who often have very little income who live in these accommodations, and who will not be able to afford this increase in rental charges. »
The file could in any case push the union of the left to close ranks. Within France Insoumise, for example, the battle for bills has a revolutionary flavor that is not to displease. This while several days of mobilization are looming in the coming weeks.