National Secretary of Europe-Ecology Les Verts, Julien Bayou believes that Emmanuel Macron has not taken the measure of the seriousness of the ecological challenge.
Wishing that the vaccine against Covid-19 can be available to the greatest number, he calls on the government to be transparent about vaccination.
What did you think of Emmanuel Macron's wishes?
JULIEN BAYOU.
The wishes of the president were intended to unite.
But the rhetoric about the courage of nursing staff rings hollow when bed closures continue as in Paris Nord.
And in support of this youth of whom he says we are “the debtors” we are expecting actions against climate change, it is the only debt that we cannot negotiate.
Do you think the vaccination is being rolled out too slowly?
The challenge is to gain height and not add crisis to the crisis in a moment of anguish and deep pessimism.
I hear that there are very few vaccines and that there are heavy logistical constraints.
For the government, it is a question of being transparent and of guaranteeing that we can make up for this delay in the coming months.
If there are difficulties, it must be said: we must not repeat the same as with masks and tests where the government has clearly adapted its instructions to the state of stocks.
We can't wait for this vaccine to be available to as many people as possible.
Do politicians have a duty to set an example, should they be publicly vaccinated?
I've seen Biden and Obama get vaccinated and I think that's a really good thing.
The first to receive the vaccine will be its main ambassadors and I am hopeful that the lack of vaccine adherence will be corrected in the coming weeks.
What is expected above all from politicians is the ability to anticipate.
Environmentalists have long been whistleblowers, we are in the best position to better prepare for the future.
Faced with the threat of a third wave of the virus, are you in favor of a curfew or a containment?
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To think that the virus is less dangerous before 6 p.m. than after 8 p.m. is a figment of the imagination.
And containment is a handbrake that should only be activated in an emergency What is needed is to maintain teleworking, and especially not to relax it as the government announces for January 7.
We also need new health protocols in schools, colleges, high schools and universities.
And additional transport to avoid the rush at peak times.
Macron proposes a referendum to include the fight against climate change in the Constitution.
Will you call for a yes vote?
This has been a request from environmentalists for years, but we are still very far from it and as long as I do not have the exact content of this constitutional revision, I reserve my answer.
Words are important: we must “guarantee” the fight against the climate otherwise we have a vagueness that will encourage inaction.
For now, it's still an announcement.
Macron does not measure the gravity of what is in front of us.
In relation to the wall which is coming up, it is a criminal irresponsibility.
"We can see that our proposals are getting more and more echoed", says Julien Bayou./LP/Olivier Corsan
Is everything bad in Emmanuel Macron's ecological balance today?
We are very far from the account and I especially note his setbacks: he reintroduced neonicotinoids, he does not defend the end of concessions for gold mines in Guyana.
The Macron candidate proposed to renovate 4 million thermal strainers, he finally announces 150,000 before the end of the mandate, or 25 times less.
Nothing is done against pollution.
While 2020 was the hottest year, that the WHO warns of increasingly serious epidemics, that we deplore repeated natural disasters, there is an urgent need to take the turn.
You are a candidate for regional in Ile-de-France, do you feel a dynamic?
The theses that we develop meet with an echo out of all proportion to what my predecessors have known.
In a Harris Interactive poll, Valérie Pécresse is rather less well established than the other outgoing right-wing region presidents and we come 3rd, just after the LREM candidate.
So there is a way to win.
We are the force capable of making the Ile-de-France region the spearhead of the ecological transition in social justice.
Audrey Pulvar vampirizes some of your themes.
Doesn't that bother you?
Everyone calls themselves an environmentalist during the campaigns, but environmentalists are the only ones who go green after the elections.
And then how will Audrey Pulvar finance the free transport she promised?
She says she will increase some taxes, some taxes, but the region does not have the power to raise either.
Our priorities for transport are reliability, respect for schedules, reinforcement at peak times and safety.
Are you in favor of a union of your two lists with between the two rounds?
We have brought together all the environmentalists for the list that I am leading: that of Delphine Batho, Corinne Lepage or Benoît Hamon.
We will be in front and we will discuss with all those who will support our ecological project.
In some regions, agreements from the first round between the PS and the ecologists are still possible?
The regions decide.
The framework we have adopted is to carry out an ecological project with people compatible with this ambition.
The new green mayors of large cities are already facing realities on the ground ...
The best proof that green people work is Grenoble.
Not only is Eric Piolle the best re-elected mayor of cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants, but Grenoble has been elected European Green Capital of Climate.
Environmentalists are good managers.
Those who are high, are those who say they are waiting for the return of growth or those, like Valérie Pécresse, who say that we can continue to aim for attractiveness while it is doing Ile-de-France. a region that we want to leave.
The realists are the green people.
If you don't win any region in June, will you still be entitled to run a presidential candidate?
Obviously.
We can see that our proposals meet more and more echo ... We will win regions and we will present an ecological candidacy for the presidential election.
Ecology at the helm it works, already at city level, tomorrow in the regions and the day after tomorrow in government.