Two Haute-Loire senators, Alain Cigolotti (UDI) and Laurent Duplomb (LR), were deprived of electricity after their power supply contracts were terminated without their knowledge, AFP learned this Sunday from parliamentary and union sources.
Cuts in relation to his position on the pension reform
“On Friday morning, when I woke up with my wife, we noticed that we had no more power supply, before realizing that we were the only ones around us in this situation,” UDI senator Alain Cigolotti told AFP on Sunday. confirming information. from the regional newspaper Progress.
“When I found out that the day before my energy provider EDF had sent a court order to Énedis, I made the link to the debate on the pension reform,” he specifies.
A representative of the CGT from the Energy sector confirmed the dismissals of these two senators, in particular “because they have positioned themselves in favor of ending the special regimes, including that of the IEG (Electric and Gas Industries)”, adding that “other situations identical events took place nationwide.
“Inadmissible to mix legislative life and personal life”
“As a senator, I did not vote for article 7 (note: which postpones the retirement age to 64 years) because I believe that we have other means to achieve this reform,” says Alain Cigolotti.
“But we are dealing with people who are not informed (…) who are intransigent in a purely trade union approach,” he denounces.
For him, “it is unacceptable to mix legislative life and personal life.” “I could have had small children or sick people connected to electrical equipment in my house,” he adds.
A senator filed a complaint
The senator said he wanted to file a complaint next Monday for identity theft and non-provision of a service due to political opinion or trade union activity, pointing out the “security flaws in the system.”
He adds that his university senator LR Laurent Duplomb filed a complaint for the same facts after having been “victim of a savage termination of his electricity and gas supply contract that he had signed with TotalEnergies.”
Other punctual and temporary voluntary power cuts have been carried out in recent weeks and claimed by the CGT as part of the mobilization against the pension reform project.
Source: BFM TV
