Suez investors prepare to do battle over GdF merger

Suez shareholders were preparing, 3 October 2006, an intense lobbying campaign against the terms of their company's plan to merge with Gaz de France as deputies in the National Assembly approved the privatisation of Europe's biggest gas supplier. Opponents to privatisation fired their final salvoes from the podium of the debating chamber in the National Assembly, with the Socialist Party accusing the government of dismantling a national asset and public service