They evoke a
“disillusion”
.
In a column published Wednesday, September 30 in
Le Monde
, the EDS deputy Matthieu Orphelin, close to Nicolas Hulot, and the EELV mayor of Grenoble, Éric Piolle, demanded accountability from Emmanuel Macron on his commitments made during the citizens' convention for the weather.
Launched in April 2019, in particular to respond to the anger of the "yellow vests", this convention brought together 150 citizens drawn by lot.
They jointly developed and submitted 149 measures to Emmanuel Macron in early summer 2020.
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The Head of State had created a surprise by declaring that he retained
"all the proposals, with the exception of three of them"
.
His refusals: the tax on dividends, the limitation to 110 km / h on the motorway, and the modification of the preamble of the Constitution.
The members of the climate convention proposed to put the environment
“above”
other core values.
Otherwise, Emmanuel Macron had certified:
"I will go to the end of the moral contract that binds us".
This Wednesday, Jean Castex, the Prime Minister, and Barbara Pompili, the Minister for the Ecological Transition, receive in Matignon about twenty participating citizens.
The opportunity to take stock.
"Denial as much on the substance as on the method"
"After the enthusiastic speeches comes the time to unravel
", deplore in the meantime Matthieu Orphelin and Eric Piolle.
“
Week after week, one by one, the strong measures of the convention are abandoned.
It is a denial, both in substance and in method, ”
denounce the two elected environmentalists.
They list the measures that are slow to occur.
"A progressive trajectory on the taxation of kerosene?
Joker!
Swept with the back of the hand, during a morning program broadcast on LCI, by the Minister of Transport.
A weight component on the auto bonus-malus, to promote the sale of lighter vehicles?
Joker de Bercy, who voluntarily presents to the consultation a punitive transcription of the measure, and refuses to include it in the finance bill.
Regulation of advertising?
Joker!
The Minister of the Economy does not believe it
”, they unfold.
On this last measure, Matthieu Orphelin wanted to take matters in hand and will table this Wednesday a bill aimed at the gradual abolition of digital signage.
"Joker!"
also, according to them, concerning the idea of a moratorium on 5G, also desired by the conventional members - and widely demanded by part of the left opposition.
"Did the president put himself for a moment in the shoes of the 150 who carried this proposal before launching his 'I do not believe that the Amish model allows to solve the challenges of contemporary ecology'?
Is it so dramatic to take a few weeks or months to think about it collectively?
Is the debate on sobriety still taboo? "
, they ask.
"To the government to recover, if it can. Unless, in the end, from the start, the purpose of the climate convention was only to demonstrate to citizens that the subjects were complex and that there was no possibility of acting and to change things? ”
, they mock.
Before concluding:
"It would be sad, given the stakes, but not so surprising ..."