The words of the Enedis spokesperson on Monday night on BFMTV, alleging that people with high vital risk were not considered priority customers by the prefectures and could be affected by possible load cuts, had the gift of upsetting the leadership of the state . According to our information on Tuesday, Matignon contacted the company for a reconsideration, after Emmanuel Macron himself rejected it from Tirana this Tuesday morning.
Elisabeth Borne’s entourage commented to BFMTV on the inopportune speech by power company spokesman Laurent Méric: “By making this exit, you annoyed the president and the prime minister.”
Matignon has little taste for the Enedis stage
To understand the sequence, you have to go back a few hours. On Monday night, on the set of BFMTV, Laurent Méric dropped: “People who are at high vital risk are not among the priority clients defined by the prefectures.”
That is, while historically low electricity production raises fears of grid saturation, particularly in January, and occasional localized power outages to deal with it, the homes of people on ventilators could be affected by these power outages.
Laurent Méric invited interested patients to present themselves at the Regional Health Agencies so that Enedis meets them two days before the discharge and can direct them if necessary “in a place that will not be discharged”.
Matignon obviously had little taste for this scenario and said so very directly to Enedis. If we do not know the exact content of the exchanges, the Prime Minister’s entourage confided to BFMTV: “Obviously we are not going to leave people in complex health situations in this situation. We list them department by department. These 4000 people are identified and enumerated.
“We do our job of anticipating responsibility, always specifying that it is a question of hypotheses”, continued Elisabeth Borne’s entourage.
The talk of the “distorted” government
Everyone has their own task. An instruction that echoes the anger expressed by Emmanuel Macron this Tuesday at the turn of a tense microphone in Tirana, Albania, where he is participating in a European summit.
“The role of the government, the ministers, the operators, is to do their job to provide power, that’s all,” he said, adding: “EDF’s job is to operate the power plants. The government’s job is to have planning (…) Scary scenarios, not for me!”
A member of the executive returned to lament BFMTV: “The rationale that has been exposed by the government is distorted by this output”
Source: BFM TV
