Marine Le Pen assures to have “ever been climatosceptic” and says “Anathema victim” on ecology

The climate and ecological program of the national gathering candidate in the presidential election has been strongly criticized by Emmanuel Macron, Saturday in Marseille.

Le Monde with AFP

Marine Le Pen and his support tried to answer, Sunday, April 17, to the attacks of Emmanuel Macron on the National Climate and Ecology Rally and Ecology Program, the next day of a Meeting in Marseille during which the president candidate made the ecological transition a pivotal point of his opposition to the far right. “Even incompetent, it is climatosceptic,” said Mr. Macron de M me Le Pen, calling the second round of April 24 of “choice of civilization” and “referendum” political, including on ecology.

“From the moment when [Emmanuel Macron] entered campaign, he made the choice to do it on the anathema, on the insult, even, to me,” replied the member of the Pas- De-Calais, in the program “Sunday in politics” recorded Saturday afternoon and broadcast Sunday. “In Marseille, it was” the more beautiful scam on ecology “”, also ironized on BFM-TV Sébastien Chenu, Northern Member and Spokesperson for Marine Le Pen, denouncing “a dredge so severe” Emmanuel Macron vis-à-vis the left and ecologist electorate.

“I have never been climatosceptic. I have a project that, precisely, takes into account the environment, takes into account the ecology”, continued Marine Le Pen on France 3, reporting its exchanges with Vignerons, who “themselves find a change in climate”. The candidate assured Wednesday, April 13 that she would not go out “not the Paris Agreement” on the climate if she was elected on April 24th.

Jordan Bardella Vante “economic patriotism”

M Me Le Pen put on nuclear power to decarbon electricity production and wants a “moratorium” on wind turbines and photovoltaics, in addition to dismantling existing wind sites. On the renewable energies side, it prefers to turn to hydropower and geothermal energy. “” With us, finished wind turbines, we will disassemble them. “Good luck, good use of the taxpayer’s money!”, Had missed Emmanuel Macron Saturday, after a visit to Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) during which In particular, he had went to a wind turbine production plant at sea.

While the national gathering had abandoned this field, Marine Le Pen defends a protectionist and identity ecology. “The best way to protect the planet is to stop the great move of the world, it is to engage the localism, that is to say the short circuits, the economic patriotism”, exposed the President of the RN, Jordan Bardella, on the program “Political questions” on France Inter and Franceinfo in partnership with Le Monde, Sunday, during a debate with the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal.

m. Bardella also put forward that France would represent “0.2% of greenhouse gas emissions” in the world – an argument that leaves some pollutants, ignores imported emissions and minimizes the historical responsibility of developed countries – , before referring responsibility for a drop in emissions to the United States and China. “Yes, it is necessary to relocate [but] we must also decarner our industry,” said Attal, Support from Emmanuel Macron.

“you are the candidates of the great warming” and “the planet is the only one to which you do not give a gift,” he continued, before attacking the extreme right again on the wind: “You even want to dig up the wind turbines that exist in France,” said Gabriel Attal, who added that “we would then be the only country in the world in the Paris Agreement to stop the renewable energies we need” .

/Media reports.