Two thousand six hundred and seventy-one votes decided the future of Amélie de Montchalin. On June 19, the Minister for Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion was beaten in the 6e constituency of Essonne by the socialist, candidate of the New People’s Ecological and Social Union (Nupes), Jérôme Guedj. At 37, and after forty days at the head of this ministry, according to a rule in force since Nicolas Sarkozy who wants a minister beaten in the legislative elections cannot remain in government, she is therefore preparing to leave the hotel in Roquelaure .
While waiting to find out who will succeed her, Amélie de Montchalin, who has announced that she wants “continue to serve [son] pays » on the night of the defeat, stay in control. In fact, his ministerial agenda is provided. For Tuesday June 28 alone, a visit to the Ile-de-France Mayors’ Fair, a lunch with the prefects and directors of water agencies to discuss the drought, a meeting with representatives of air and rail transport “to ensure their full mobilization to guarantee the French a serene mobility throughout the summer”, without forgetting the meeting with the associations representing tenants on the protection of their purchasing power. On Wednesday and Thursday, Amélie de Montchalin will be in Lisbon at the United Nations conference on the ocean, where she will chair, among other things, “a high-level dialogue on the role of research and innovation in preserving the oceans”.
It is not a simple management of current affairs but the work of a minister in action, we insist in his entourage. “The country is going through a moment of great challenges, there is no interruption. With the Prime Minister remaining, the government’s new architecture on ecology remains and there will be no pause in political action. We can’t waste time.”told the Monde Amelie de Montchalin. An analysis that the director general of Greenpeace France does not share. “We have the impression that nothing is happening, that we are in a waiting phase. The legislative elections put a stop to the government momentum wanted by Macron. And just because an agenda is full doesn’t mean things get done.”believes Jean-François Julliard.
“It will change”
In fact, urgent issues such as purchasing power, which must give rise to a law, accompanied by an amending finance bill, are rather in the hands of his colleague, the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier -Runacher, who does not see, a priori, his position threatened. The same applies to the bill announced by the previous government on “ecological emergency”which should make it possible to simplify procedures, in particular for the development of renewable energies.
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