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Referendum on the climate: the risky bet of Emmanuel Macron

2021-01-20T20:14:19.813Z


The process is underway, but it is not certain that it will succeed. The text presented to the Council of Ministers must be adopted in the same


The text is on the table.

The bill providing for including in Article 1 of the Constitution that France "guarantees the preservation of the environment and biological diversity and the fight against climate change" (terms that the President himself validated) was presented this Wednesday, January 20 in the Council of Ministers.

"This is an extremely structuring step forward for our public policies", underlined the Head of State, taking care to recall that he was transmitting a proposal from the members of the Climate Convention.

A risky bet for Emmanuel Macron, who, if there is a campaign, “will assume his share”, according to a relative.

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Whether this modification of the Constitution can be submitted by referendum to the French by the 2022 presidential election remains uncertain.

The bill must still be adopted in the same terms by both Chambers - the reform of the institutions, launched at the start of the five-year term, thus never came to an end ...

Intense discussions are brewing in Parliament.

The Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, who will carry the text, also wishes to meet the presidents of each parliamentary group.

Avoid "political quarrels"

"The key to all this is in the Senate," blows a government adviser.

Gérard Larcher, President LR of the Upper House, does not hide his reluctance, refusing in particular the use of the term "guarantee".

In the Assembly, too, the opposition was not silent on its critics.

"Instrumentalisation", "manipulation", we hear on the right and on the left, when environmentalists fear a political game aimed at making forget the bill on the proposals of the Climate Convention insufficient in their eyes.

“This will bring environmental protection to where it needs to be.

Drowning in political quarrels would not be up to the task, ”says the Minister for the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili.

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Once again, the executive wants to contain the debates on this only subject - "we are going only on that", says an adviser.

But already, some in the majority fear "a fair" with multiple amendments on the differentiation of territories or immigration, for example, which would slow down the process.

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If it came to an end, when would the referendum be held?

"It will inevitably be in the fall," says a government source, when a minister emphasizes that "the first issue will then be to mobilize voters on this issue".

Source: leparis

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