There is no fatality to the French decline

Those who wanted to bury Anne Lauvergeon before even the end of its mandate, in June, did well to keep. Tribune in "The world", interview on RTL, TV program, the patron saint of Areva is since a few days campaigning muscular for its renewal, at the time the Supervisory Board of the nuclear group is currently finalizing a list of potential successors. His message is simple: facing the gravediggers of the French industry, Areva (so Anne Lauvergeon) embodies the hope. "There is no fatality to the French decline."

She wants to prove the plant in Saint-Marcel, Saône-et-Loire, sentenced to close in 2000 while it was more than 20 of its capacity. "It seemed to be the slope of the classical fate, yesterday said Anne Lauvergeon employees to the site. It had to close. I refused. "In the space of ten years, after having won orders in the United States, the plant has doubled its workforce and multiplied its sales by 10. What better example to defend his record Ten years later, the mistress refuses the fate of his replacement...

Local elected officials are more convincing. "Anne Lauvergeon is a patriot of the French industry," enthuses Arnaud Montebourg, PS President of the General Council of the Department, which the supports for a third term. "On the ruins of Framatome, she built the first nuclear power group of the world", supports Jean-Paul Anciaux, UMP Deputy of Saône - et - Loire. With 11 other local elected officials, all political colors combined, they have published yesterday a press release entitled: "the hour of choice for a winning French industry."

To Anne Lauvergeon, which does not include that we think to replace, is the real France that is expressed here, and not the Parisian microcosm imagine disqualified outset. It must be said that its relations with the President of the Republic, one decision maker, are particularly degraded. After having submitted a portfolio of Minister in 2007, that she refused, Nicolas Sarkozy was close to remove Anne Lauvergeon last spring, at the time where it was engaged in an arms of iron with Henri Proglio, the pattern of EDF. It was finally granted to complete its mandate. But, "it will have to go", today provides a close source of the Elysee Palace.

Jean-Cyril Spinetta, the President of the Supervisory Board, should deliver to the Government, here in the next week, a list of prospective candidates. In addition to that of Anne Lauvergeon, who proposes to prepare the ground for a future internal candidate, the names returning with insistence are Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, Rhodia CEO, Marwan Lahoud, Chief Executive Officer of EADS, Yazid Sabeg, CEO of CS Communication and systems and close to Henri Proglio. The name of Anne-Marie Idrac, former Secretary of State for foreign trade, also circulates, but his chances would be thin.

Anne Lauvergeon campaign, "it is the energy of despair", grinding a senior official. His candidacy faces several obstacles. If it presents itself as the most competent for the position, his opponents criticized him taunts from the site of the Finnish EPR, the lack of firm orders of reactors from Russian or Korean competitors and contrasting results. She finally has a stormy relationship with Henri Proglio, which the Government is to end.