The Réélu president intends to entrust responsibility to the future Prime Minister, supported by two “strong” ministries. A real headache which involves a cutting of the current Ministry of Ecological Transition.
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Go “twice as quickly” in the reduction of greenhouse gases. This is what Emmanuel Macron promised in Marseille on April 16, in a speech supposed to embody his ecological turn, but essentially reflecting an alignment with European objectives. To face the “Century Combat” and “make France the first great nation to get out of gas, oil and coal”, he plans to appoint a Prime Minister “directly responsible for ecological planning”, which would be supported by Two “strong” ministries: a ministry of “energy planning” and a ministry “responsible for territorial ecological planning”.
Emmanuel Macron is not the first to want to redraw the contours of his government to better deal with the question of the climate. The new German coalition has thus chosen to bring economy, energy and ecology closer to a “superminist” entrusted to an ecological minister. The president did not retain this scheme, fearing a risk of absorption of ecology by the economy, given the historic power of Bercy.
However, to concentrate the ecological transition in a single ministry with a lower political weight than that of sovereign ministries has no sense, it is said in the entourage of the president, including from the point of view of the Administrative sociology. Entrust it to Matignon must allow it to give it more bodies. But symbolically only: the future Prime Minister would expand his councilor teams without acquiring real specific administrative services, who will remain in the ministries.
remains the most complex. According to several sources, the idea is indeed to cut the current Ministry of Ecological Transition (MTE) to make it two full exercise distinct entities. The Ministry of Energy Planning will pilot the energy policy, and therefore the realization of the announcements made by Emmanuel Macron, in February in Belfort, on nuclear, will recover the related administrations of the MTE, and will exercise the supervision, or the coastal with Bercy, D ‘An EDF intended to be renationalized soon. He will also be responsible for the implementation of the Energie-Climate programming law.
“Reason in an abstract way, it does not work”
The other ministry – that of territorial ecological planning – will supervise household support policies, such as the distribution of premiums for converting vehicles, or aid for thermal renovation type Maprimerenov ‘, part of which are part already by the hand of local authorities. A choice that finds its source in the crisis of “yellow vests”, “those who fear too fast changes”, summed up Emmanuel Macron in Marseille. The movement has shown that “reasoning abstractly at the national level, it does not work”, indicates a relative of the executive.
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