Do not leave ecology to the left or to Emmanuel Macron while pursuing the logic of presidentialization.
This is the objective of Marine Le Pen who presents to the press on Tuesday a counter-draft referendum on the subject consisting of… no less than fifteen questions.
At the origin of the idea, the proposal of the President of the Republic to modify article 1 of the Constitution in order to specify that the Republic “guarantees the preservation of the environment and biological diversity and the fight against climate change. ".
Completely hollow according to Marine Le Pen, for whom this question is contained in the Environmental Charter of 2004 which already has constitutional value.
In order to mark its difference and thus underline the emptiness of the presidential proposal, the National Gathering takes the opposite course, with a long list of questions.
For each of them, the RN is in favor of the submitted proposal.
One way for Marine Le Pen's party to recall its attachment to the referendum method, which it has always supported and which is therefore seized by the Head of State.
And too bad if the questions, sometimes pointed, can appear technical to the public.
They aim to illustrate the credibility of the far-right party in an area far removed from its political DNA, but which it has placed at the heart of its agenda since the Europeans of 2019. That year, localism, theorized in particular by the essayist Hervé Juvin (who has since become an RN MEP), had been at the heart of his European program.
Here are the questions that the RN proposes to submit by referendum to the French:
Would you like our constitutional texts to contain the principle of environmental security and the protection of our tangible and intangible heritage?
Would you like the generalization of detailed labeling for food products?
Would you like France to continue investing in nuclear, carbon-free energy?
Do you want parent companies to be responsible for environmental damage caused by their subsidiaries?
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Would you like the construction of infrastructure or collective facilities of national interest to be submitted to parliament for approval?
Do you want acts taken within the framework of the European Union which do not respect the provisions of the Environmental Charter to be inapplicable in France?
Would you like to suspend all wind turbine construction projects?
Do you wish to suspend any large surface installation project?
Would you like to severely restrict all new construction on agricultural land?
Would you like to develop green spaces in cities and green and blue networks by putting in place constraints for municipalities?
Would you like the maintenance of a “natural carbon storage area” (hedges, wetland, etc.) to be remunerated for farmers?
Would you like to ban imports of products (agricultural or manufactured) the manufacture or production of which would be prohibited in France?
Would you like VAT to be modulated according to the ability of products to be repaired and recycled?
Would you like France to introduce a tax on imported products to offset the effects of their production and transport on the environment?
Would you like the importer or distributor to be held liable in the event of the sale on the French market of a product that is defective or does not comply with the regulations in force?
On the form, the technicality of the questions is therefore highlighted, as on the natural carbon storage areas.
Basically, no surprise.
The RN has always vigorously defended nuclear energy and fought against wind turbines.
Localism appears through provisions such as the ban on imports of products whose manufacture is prohibited in France or the tax on imported products.
As a guarantee of credibility, the RN specifies in its document whether each proposal, if approved, would give rise to constitutional or legislative changes.