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The title of the event was misleading.
This Sunday, March 13, the #DébatDuSiècle on the theme of the climate organized by environmental NGOs on Twitch, a live video streaming service, did not see the various presidential candidates confront each other.
Instead, on set, each of the five candidates present had half an hour to present, alone, their environmental program and answer questions from Jean Massiet and Paloma Moritz, respectively political streamer (person who broadcasts online videos) and journalist for online media Blast.
In the aftermath of Climate Marches all over France and their thousands of demonstrators who denounced the absence of climate issues in the campaign, the concept was original for an unprecedented exercise, the organizers of the event declaring that they wanted to focus on the substance of the programs to potential tense exchanges between the candidates.
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Only those who had parliamentary groups had been invited (which automatically excluded “small candidates”).
Philippe Poutou, for the NPA (new anti-capitalist party) having insisted on coming, a slot had been reserved for him by the organizers.
Marine Le Pen, like Éric Zemmour, had been automatically excluded.
The first to pass, the environmentalist candidate Yannick Jadot, struggling in the opinion polls, first rolled out his program without surprise, evoking the necessary "relocation of the economy", recalling that he wanted to "stop with commercial areas” to favor local shops and allow the French to spend less time in transport.
He also returned to a proposal he had already revealed on Friday: requesting the withdrawal of TotalEnergies from Russia, a company he considers "complicit" in "war crimes" since the invasion of Ukraine.
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Valérie Pécresse (LR) then took over, insisting on her side on her desire to create a “circular economy”, “hunting down waste” and favoring French production by reindustrializing the country, a proposal which made the two presenters wince. .
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She was also indignant, calling for better protection of French products.
“I am for the big replacement but for that of oil boilers”
"We must ensure that the France of happy days engages in the ecological transition", then launched the communist candidate Fabien Roussel, third on the list, who returned at length to one of the measures of his program: to make free public transport and lower the price of the train.
His proposal to eat meat only “three to four times a week” provoked mockery from Twitch listeners who could react live.
On the other hand, his quip on "the great replacement" hit the mark.
“I am for the big replacement but for that of oil-fired boilers,” he said with a smile, in a reference to the far-right candidate Éric Zemmour.
Philippe Poutou, the NPA candidate, then made a brief appearance.
Having to slip away to catch a train, he had time to call for a "break with capitalism", which, according to him, is the source of the planet's ills.
Finally, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo (PS) returned to her wish to tax the most polluting large companies with a climate ISF (wealth tax) to carry out a “social and just” ecological transition.
She also mentioned the creation of "industrial odysseys" bringing together scientists, researchers and companies to think about "new mobility".
The candidate of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who had announced his arrival the day before after a long suspense, finally canceled during the broadcast.
The organizers had also reserved a slot at 7.50 p.m. for Emmanuel Macron "if he decided to come", according to them, but, despite numerous reminders, he did not come to the filming location, in Ivry- sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne).