On the change of status post hopes to collect 2

At the headquarters of the post, it refuses to comment. For the management of the company, "an approach to character policy" is committed, which does not change the economic situation, namely the opening full competition in postal services in 2011 programmed by Brussels and the need for the establishment of raise new capital to meet its missions. The Government has proposed that this passes through the transformation of the public institution in anonymous society. Nevertheless, the success of the "citizen referendum on the future of the position" organized until Saturday by the Committee against the privatization of La Poste, a collective of parties, associations and trade unions left, Exchange provides. The French were to make the process of voting in some 9.987 offices which had organised this suffrage, qualified by the spokesman of UMP, Frédéric Lefebvre, "manipulation". Among them, some wanted just to demonstrate their commitment to public service, which for decades, symbolizes the equal treatment of citizens. Early evening yesterday, Nicolas Galepides, spokesman for the Organizing Committee, elected Union South - PTT, stated that there were more than 2 million votes and counting was continuing in 4 or 5 departments. It stated that the voting had been very strong in rural areas and in the popular neighborhoods, "where the problem is the most devastating". "After this exercise of participatory democracy and the enthusiasm of the people, we will obviously ask the freezing of the project of transformation of the position in company and opening a public debate in a form to be determined, but which should bring together all stakeholders," he added.

6 Billion in debt

Throughout the day yesterday, members of the Government have multiplied statements to remind that the Act project to transform the position into company with public capital was not a privatization project. Industry Minister Christian Estrosi has Litvinenko on a vote "to the Soviet" which opens a question for or against privatization, which does nothing to the debate opened by the content of the reform. Is there a misunderstanding The French actually believe privatization At least wary, fearing that the switch to a purely private logic is very fast and will result in deletions of offices.

The Bill must be considered in first reading in the Senate at the end of the month. He said that the capital of the position "is held by the State or other legal persons belonging to the public sector, with the exception of the part of the capital that can be detained in respect of the ownership of the personal". It also confirms the missions of general interest of the institution: the universal postal service, the contribution to the spatial planning, transport and distribution of the press and the banking accessibility, through the Livret A. On the change of status, post hopes to collect 2.7 billion of fresh capital and improve its balance sheet, now weakened by debt of 6 billion to 3.9 billion of equity. For the company, it is the important point of the reform, knowing that a direct input of the same amount by the State would be disqualified by the European Commission as an anti-competitive.