Is the key to the constitutional revision on the environment hidden in the corridors of the Senate or under the dome of the French Academy?
Adopted this Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, the bill stipulates that the Republic
“guarantees the preservation of biodiversity and the environment and the fight against climate change”
.
A formulation that takes exactly that proposed by the Citizen's Convention for the Climate.
The Senate, for its part, refuses the verb "guarantee", too restrictive in its eyes, or too exclusive compared to other fundamental freedoms that the Constitution must also guarantee.
The Republic
"promotes"
, as the government had envisaged in 2019: the formula would suit Gérard Larcher and his majority better.
But then, it is the "conventional" who will denounce a drafting that is too weak to be of any use.
To solve this impossible equation, the executive will have to open the dictionary of the French Academy
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