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Citizen's Convention: Piolle and Orphelin denounce the “unraveling” operated by the government

2020-09-30T08:20:52.194Z


Grenoble EELV mayor Eric Piolle and EDS deputy Matthieu Orphelin denounced Wednesday the “ unraveling ” by the government of the measures put on the table by the citizens' convention for the climate and the lack of alternative proposals. This column published on the World website appears while Prime Minister Jean Castex and Minister for Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili are due to meet on Wed


Grenoble EELV mayor Eric Piolle and EDS deputy Matthieu Orphelin denounced Wednesday the “

unraveling

” by the government of the measures put on the table by the citizens' convention for the climate and the lack of alternative proposals.

This column published on the World website appears while Prime Minister Jean Castex and Minister for Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili are due to meet on Wednesday morning in Matignon with around twenty representatives of the citizens' convention for the climate for a progress report.

MM.

Piolle and Orphelin estimate that three months after Emmanuel Macron's speech before the 150 citizens drawn by lot to participate in this convention, speech during which he had retained 146 of the 149 proposals, “

it is disillusionment.

The government is launching, in this return, in the unraveling of the proposals: after the enthusiastic speeches comes the time to unravel

”.

Week after week, one by one, the strong measures of the convention are abandoned.

It is a denial, both in substance and in method

”, they deplore, listing the subjects of decline according to them: moratorium on 5G, progressive trajectory on the taxation of kerosene, weight component on the auto bonus-malus , regulation of advertising.

When it comes to participatory democracy, there is nothing worse than consulting citizens without then taking their opinions into account.

Instead of strengthening confidence in elected officials, this only increases their mistrust

", alert the two elected officials, calling on the government to"

recover, if it can

".

"

Unless, ultimately, 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 change things?

It would be distressing, given the stakes, but not so surprising…

”, add the mayor Europe Ecologie-Les Verts and the deputy Ecologie Démocratie Solidarité.

"

So who wants to kill the citizens' convention for the climate

", they ask, noting that "

not once has the executive proposed, instead of those of the convention, alternative measures to achieve the objective set for them: define a global project allowing a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

"

Source: lefigaro

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