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The debate we are opening here does not belong only to politicians and constitutionalists.
The citizens must be able to seize it and, why not, be brought to vote by referendum.
These words are not those of the members of the Citizens' Convention, nor of Emmanuel Macron.
They date from July 2015 and were written under François Hollande's five-year term by Cécile Duflot and Pascal Canfin.
A column published in
Liberation
before the COP21 summit in Paris.
In December 2016, Cécile Duflot also drafted a bill to include “
the fight against climate change and the ecological character of the Republic in the Constitution
”.
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Already, in the early 2000s, Nicolas Hulot had pushed for this inclusion in the Constitution.
He had not succeeded, but it was partly thanks to him that Jacques Chirac, then head of state, had promulgated the environmental charter.
This text of constitutional value makes people say
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