INTERVIEW
After a weekend marked by the movement of railway workers of the SNCF, which largely disrupted the rail traffic, the MP for the Essonne Nicolas Dupont-Aignan has instead sided with the agents. "On the form I condemn it, but on the bottom I approve it" declared the president of Debout France on Europe 1.
The overwhelming responsibility of Guillaume Pepy
Nicolas Dupont-Aignan regrets in particular the impact of this movement on the users, while rejecting the fault on the direction of the SNCF. "It's terrible to say that millions of people are being pissed off because a company has not been able to create the conditions for a minimum dialogue to ensure the safety of users", plague the deputy of Essonne. It directly targets the boss of the SNCF, Guillaume Pepy, he considers responsible for this situation. "Quickly it goes away," he said in the preamble, before asking why the SNCF "has left in regions a controller in the TER and not in other regions." "When we think that in our country we run TER with a single driver, we say that they have gone crazy."
The government also takes for his rank, because he is just as responsible according to Nicolas Dupont-Aignan. "By dint of leaving Guillaume Pepy to do anything to the SNCF, we managed to take hostage the users," said the MP for Essonne.
Find another way to strike
The president of Debout France thinks that we should not punish railway workers, "it would be too easy", according to him. On the other hand, it makes a proposal "to strike otherwise", because "we can not take hostage users". For this, Nicolas Dupont Aignan would like to "make free use of the train" in case of social conflict, an idea "that penalize the SNCF" and not its customers. That's why he is campaigning for a law that removes the penalties against the unions during the establishment of this kind of movement, so "to stop to annoy the French and solve the problems of the SNCF".