The communist mayor of Montataire, a town of 13,600 inhabitants near Creil in the Oise, threatened this Monday to “stop paying” for electricity in his town if nothing is done to alleviate the communities in the face of rising prices, for fear to a “quadrupling” of electricity. bills.
“There it is impossible. How do I find the 1.9 million euros that are missing? What service do I close? Do I leave the school catering, do I close the town hall three days a week?” asks Jean-Pierre Bosino, in a statement .
“We don’t have a war chest, we have to vote for a balanced budget,” he says.
A bill that could be multiplied by four
Given the dizzying rise in electricity prices in the wholesale market, which this Friday exceeded 1,000 euros per megawatt hour (MWh), compared to 85 a year ago, the city’s bill could rise in 2023, at maturity of the current contract, “from 600,000 euros to 2.5 million euros,” explained the elect.
Unlike private individuals, “local authorities are subject to the market price from a certain level of budget and agents. Today it is unsustainable! We must return to the regulated price”, alleges Jean-Pierre Bosino.
“It is because an essential good has been delivered to the Exchange that we are here. Speculation in electricity and gas costs the majority but brings a lot to a few”, he laments.
“If the government does nothing” to relieve the communities, “we will no longer pay the bills, and I call on all the communities affected by this phenomenon to do the same”, launches the communist.
The green fund endowed with 1,500 million euros intended for communities to “help them accelerate their ecological transition”, “is blank”, still judges Jean-Pierre Bosino. “Of course we have to work on this transition, but in any case we will have to continue to light up our streets, our schools, make computer services work…”
Source: BFM TV
