The atmosphere is at the vigil of arms, in the government and in the majority, before the arrival of the Climate and Resilience bill in committee at the National Assembly on Monday, March 8.
This is evidenced by the “stalling” meeting held last Tuesday around the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, with the ministers concerned, the presidents of the groups and responsible for the text for the majority.
In the background, a text criticized from all sides, including by the citizens of the Convention from which it came, a divided majority, a profusion of amendments (around 5,000), ultra-mobilized lobbies.
And on the front line, a divisive minister, Barbara Pompili.
The game promises to be tight for the majority.
“We must avoid being locked into micropolemics, seeming to sit on the important work of the Citizens' Convention or appear divided.
It is also essential to include the text in the ecological policy of the five-year term, ”summarizes the president of the LREM group, Christophe Castaner.
The MEP and Elysian advisor, Stéphane Séjourné, echoed: “The challenge, with this bill, is to carry our model of ecological transition and to assume it.
We must stop apologizing.
Between the return to the Stone Age and that of the return to borders, we are promoting a model based on transitions.
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Those around her recall that "she was president of the Sustainable Development Commission for three years and knows all this by heart".
But doubts are expressed within the majority and the government.
“I have some questions about his method.
It is political know-how, the way of discussing and finding agreements, of bringing down bad political controversies and of pushing out good ones.
If it wants to go further, it must be able to take it further, ”says a macronist.
"There are a few in the majority who would not buy him a second-hand car"
“She is a very solid woman.
She knows very well where she is going.
The question is, is she very loyal?
»Corrects a minister for whom she is on this point at the moment of truth.
The questioning is latent, recurrent, in macronia.
"There are a few in the majority who would not buy him a second-hand car," laughs an executive.
In the present case, some fear that this ex-EELV will use its support in the Assembly "to push for amendments and go back on the arbitrations that it has lost" (an LREM deputy).
A suspicion that the person denies, and which she annoys in private.
“She is a committed, convinced minister.
Of course she wants the text to be as green as possible.
But what interest would she have in messing around?
»Retorts a relative.
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Additional difficulty, other deputies fear a contrario, that the minister does not weigh enough to strengthen the text.
"She will not be able to get out of the arbitrations that she should have won before", slice one of them, thinking of "episodes on neonicotinoids, glyphosate".
Because the other ministries too, are suspected of wanting to play their part via "friendly deputies".
Atmosphere.
"Confidence is total", assures Matignon
So, on the eve of the debates, all eyes turn to Matignon.
Christophe Castaner and Jean Castex have agreed, the debates will be followed very closely by the rue de Varenne.
“We pay very particular attention to this text, as with the one on separatism, but it is not because there is a problem with the minister.
We have no mistrust of our ministers, be it Barbara Pompili or anyone else.
Confidence is total, ”says Matignon.
“The object is to say that Matignon is piloting, to avoid internal contradictions.
We need a command ", sums up a framework of the majority, who sees in it the need" to have a justice of the peace ".
"Putting everyone under surveillance to keep the balance," said another.
