Presidential election: Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen Batillate on climate

Video While Marine Le Pen defends “patriotism” and the “localism” for the climate, Emmanuel Macron took advantage of his meeting in Marseille to try to convince about the ecological question. Everyone accuses the other of not being up to this subject.

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“The extreme right is a climatosceptic project,” said the outgoing president at his meeting of between-Tours in Marseille, Saturday, April 16, to disqualify his opponent. “It’s a project that wants to get out of climate Europe, who wants to destroy wind turbines …” he added. Marine Le Pen was quick to react during an interview on France 3: “I have a project that takes into account the environment, ecology.”

In this between-two-tricks, the climate has become a campaign argument for the national gathering. Jordan Bardella, on Franceinfo, even said that “the vote for the climate is the vote for Marine Le Pen”. He defends “localism, short circuits, economic patriotism” to cope with environmental issues. “The best way to protect the planet is to stop the big move in the world,” he said.

For his part, Emmanuel Macron made his Mea Culpa on France Culture: “One of the things I probably have the most transformed intellectually, it is nature, it is the thought of ecology. It’s something I did not think enough. And when I do not have a structured thought, I have trouble acting. “The outgoing president announced wanting to appoint a Prime Minister responsible for ecological planning s ‘He was re-elected.

A speech criticized by the opposing camp. “In Marseille, it was more beautiful the scam on ecology,” said the North RN deputy, Sébastien Chenu. He denounced at Emmanuel Macron “a dredge (…) height” ecologist voters.

/Media reports.