On the trip to the first ten days of the first round of the presidential election, the presidential president went to promote his balance sheet in the field of environment and defend his project and his method for the future.
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Finally a campaign atmosphere. Three days after traveling to Dijon, when he had carried out his first crowd baths as a candidate, Emmanuel Macron is again went to meet inhabitants and traders, Thursday, March 31, when traveling to Fouras (Charente Maritime). In this commune populated mainly from retirees, led by a mayor the Republicans (LR), the president candidate received a rather warm welcome, with encouragement to the excavator – “You are the best, undeniably”, “good luck!” – and inevitable requests for souvenir photos.
But not only. Medical deserts, housing problems, end of life but also retirement at 65 years … At ten days of the first round of the presidential election, on April 10, Mr. Macron was also confronted with protests and cries of anger. Any kind. Interpellated several times on the McKinsey case, which embarrasses the executive, he responded, annoyed, to a woman: “The campaign, it must be the purchasing power, how do we settle safety problems, how do we go out of war. Do not put it on a fake subject! “Before cries arise. “Political betrayal, climate inaction!”, Screams a group of young people, recalling to each the object of the presidential visit.
Accused by the candidate of Europe Ecology-la Greens (EELV), Yannick Jadot, to have “nothing done” for the safeguarding of the planet during his five-year, Mr. Macron came to defend his ecological balance sheet and detail The measures it intends to implement in this field in case of re-election. He is criticized for having led a policy of “small steps”, missing ambition? He prefers to see the glass half full and highlight his achievements, such as the abandonment of the Airport of Notre-Dame-des-Landes or the commercial zone Europaity, north of Paris; the doubling of agricultural areas in organic; The creation of 13,000 kilometers of bike paths or the reopening of 17,000 kilometers of train lines.
“We doubled the pace of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over the last five years”, congratulated, in a speech by thirty minutes, standing in the middle of the Marketplace of this municipality, where the state invests to depollure an old discharge. Measures deemed largely insufficient by environmental defense associations, with regard to “climate emergency”.
Conversion premium
But Mr. Macron does not intend to embark on a radical project, aiming instead of continuity. Insulation work has been carried out in 800,000 dwellings; Its objective is to continue this effort on a pace of 700,000 a year. After the conversion premium, which allowed a million people to trade their old car for a less polluting vehicle, it proposes the establishment of a car rental mechanism for less than 100 euros per month. “Decarbon” energy consumption passes, according to him, by the rise in the production of “renewable”, including the construction of fifty wind farms at sea by 2050 and, above all, the creation of six new nuclear reactors . A contested choice by Greenpeace, which announced the filing, Thursday, an appeal “for excess of power” to the Council of State.
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