The parliamentarians validated on Wednesday the appointment of the LR mayor of Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes) Boris Ravignon at the head of the Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe), despite a majority of votes cast against.
President Emmanuel Macron plans to appoint him to the presidency of Ademe, the Élysée announced in early December.
But the relevant committees of the two assemblies had to decide.
On Wednesday, the appointment of Boris Ravignon collected 16 votes against and 10 for in the Senate, as well as 19 for and 17 against in the National Assembly.
The votes against are therefore more numerous than those in favor of this choice.
According to the Constitution, parliamentarians must however gather “
at least three fifths of the votes cast
” to oppose an appointment proposed by the president.
"
The meaning of my candidacy is to be a local elected representative well aware of the issues, the difficulties, but also the possibilities, the potential of the ecological transition at the territorial level
", declared Boris Ravignon during a hearing at the Senate Wednesday morning.
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In April, the mayor of Charleville-Mézières had given his support to Emmanuel Macron against the candidate LR Valérie Pécresse for the presidential election.
The two men, both enarques of the same generation (Boris Ravignon is 47 and Emmanuel Macron 44), worked together at the General Inspectorate of Finance in Bercy in 2004-2005, before Boris Ravignon joined Nicolas Sarkozy, then Minister of the Interior and in orbit for the 2007 presidential election.
Since September 1, the presidency of the Ademe Board of Directors has been held on an interim basis by Patrick Lavarde, after the resignation in June of the previous president Arnaud Leroy, another close friend of the President of the Republic and pillar of the 2017 campaign. .
