Strife at French utility

Strife at French utility

ELECTRICITE de France executives have written to Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the French Finance Minister, asking him to mediate in a conflict between the state-owned electricity utility's chairman, Edmond Alphandery, and the director general, Pierre Daures, Le Monde newspaper reported. Five EDF executives are backing Mr Daures, who feels he is the object of a destabilisation campaign' by Mr Alphandery's aides.