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Presidential: ecology, the poor relation of the Le Pen-Macron debate

2022-04-21T18:26:13.989Z


While the climate emergency is glaring, the moment devoted to it during the televised face-to-face between the two rounds was summed up


If the debate between the two presidential rounds between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen was technical on purchasing power measures, legal on immigration, ideological on the veil or on Europe, financial on the links of the National Rally with Moscow, it hardly gave rise to a confrontation pushed on ecology.

Despite the climate emergency, the game has often boiled down to a fight over formulas.

Moreover, at the end of the show, Wednesday, April 20, the outgoing president regretted in the box not having been able to further develop his vision, as reported by the Politico site.

It was however the key theme of his meeting in Marseille, where, on April 16, he had notably promised, in the event of victory, to appoint a Prime Minister in charge of “ecological planning”.

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"Climate skeptic" against "climato-hypocrite"... Le Pen and Macron clash on ecology

In front of the cameras of TF1 and France 2, the two finalists returned unfriendly qualifiers.

Emmanuel Macron presented his opponent as "climatosceptic".

He accused her of wanting to put a stop to new wind and solar projects.

“Your strategy is an all-nuclear strategy.

It is not possible,” he asserted.

Opposite, Marine Le Pen called the outgoing president a “climato-hypocrite”, supporting the “worst of punitive ecology”.

Struggle on wind turbines

To support her argument, the RN candidate cited the ban on the passage of old or polluting cars in the city centers of large cities "even to go to the hospital" or the fact of "saying that people are guilty because that they don't buy an electric car".

Finally, she criticized Emmanuel Macron for the closure of the Fessenheim nuclear power plant (Haut-Rhin), at the start of his five-year term.

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Wind turbines were another subject of tussles.

Emmanuel Macron defeated the idea of ​​​​dismantling this equipment, which appears in the program of the National Rally.

Her competitor accused the outgoing head of state of installing off-shore wind turbines wherever possible, "except opposite Le Touquet", the Macron couple's vacation spot.

"Are you kidding or what?

choked Emmanuel Macron.

It's conspiracy!

»

If the project was indeed suspended off the Opal Coast, the causes of this decision seem more complex.

Thursday April 21, the LR mayor of Le Touquet, Daniel Fasquelle, stepped up to defend Emmanuel Macron.

The wind farm project facing the beaches of Berck in Le Touquet was dismissed in 2017 following an approach by the Horizon collective that I created and which prevented Ségolène Royal, Minister of F Hollande, from passing in force on the eve of the elections. presidential.

EM has nothing to do with it.

— Daniel Fasquelle (@DFasquelle) April 21, 2022

In a tweet, he affirms that "the wind farm project facing the beaches of Berck in Le Touquet was rejected in 2017 following an approach by the Horizon collective that I created, which prevented Ségolène Royal, Minister of François Hollande, to force through on the eve of the elections.

Emmanuel Macron has nothing to do with it.

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Source: leparis

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