Invited Monday, July 5 to the “
big interview of 7/9
” of
France Inter
, the spokesperson of the Government Gabriel Attal deplored the existence of a “
very strong climatosceptic
line
” among Les Républicains.
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Asked about the question of a referendum on ecology, Gabriel Attal indicated that they [the government] "
would like to do it
" before the end of the year or before the end of the five-year term. "
The Senate will prevent us from doing this, and I regret it
." “
What I see among the Republicans is that they talk very little about the environment and ecology. Why ? Because there is a very strong climate skeptic line
, ”he said.
“
You know, a few months ago, there was an LR deputy in the National Assembly, in Questions to the Government, who spoke on behalf of his group, and who spoke of“ so-called global warming ”
”, a he said.
Gabriel Attal echoed the intervention of Jean-Charles Taugourdeau on December 3, 2019. The latter was at the time LR deputy for Maine-et-Loire and had mentioned the "
alleged global warming
" by attacking "
lobbies of sustainable development
”.
On July 5, the Senate examines, at second reading, the draft constitutional law supplementing Article 1 of the Constitution and relating to the preservation of the environment, adopted with modifications by the National Assembly at second reading.
A risk of "
indeterminate
"
legal effects
, according to the Senate
The right-wing majority is opposed to the text, pointing in particular to the use of the expression "
France guarantees the preservation of the environment and biological diversity and acts against climate change
".
François-Noël Buffet, LR senator from the Rhône and chairman of the Senate
Law
Committee, fears that the use of the verb “
guarantee
” will lead to “
indeterminate
legal effects
, whether these are the conditions of engagement of liability public persons or the validity of their acts
”.
It also recalls that the environmental charter has been included in the constitutionality block since 2005, under the aegis of Jacques Chirac.
Gabriel Attal lamented that "
every time we present measures in favor of the environment, bonus-malus on large SUVs, limitation of the plane etc., you have The Republicans who vote against and the senatorial majority who votes against
”.
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“
There is this commitment of the Citizen's Climate Convention to put the fight against global warming and the preservation of biodiversity in our Constitution. We want to do it, we want to propose it by referendum to the French. The Senate blocked us for the first time. We took a step towards them by making our text evolve, we expected them to be able to take a step towards us too, obviously that is not what they are going to do,
”concluded the spokesperson for Government.
