French Presidential: Marine Le Pen in support of fishermen opposed to wind power

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French presidential candidate RN Marine Le Pen meets with representatives of fishermen during a visit to the port of Saint-Malo, in western France, this Friday, January 14, 2022. AP - Jeremias Gonzalez

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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.

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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 chased out of these fishing areas to install these wind turbines

 ", confides a participant.

“ 

If one day there isn't a sailor who commits suicide, well, I won't understand

 ,” adds another.

“ 

We are going to stop that, we are going to stop wind power at sea, we are going to stop parks elsewhere on land as well

 ”, 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.

Thank you to the Bretons for their support and their welcome to this land that is so dear to me.

🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/dG9kKSN1Wv

– Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) January 14, 2022

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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