Marine Le Pen and her supporters tried to respond, on Sunday April 17, to Emmanuel Macron’s attacks on the program of the National Rally (RN) concerning climate and ecology, the day after a meeting in Marseilles during which the president candidate has made the ecological transition a pivotal point of his opposition to the far right. “Even incompetent, she is climatosceptic”said Mr. Macron of Mme Le Pen, calling the second round of April 24 a “choice of civilization” and of “referendum” politics, especially on ecology.
” Since the moment when [Emmanuel Macron] entered the campaign, he made the choice to do so on the anathema, on the insult, even, towards me “replied the MP for Pas-de-Calais, in the program “Sunday in politics” recorded on Saturday afternoon and broadcast on Sunday. “In Marseille, it was ‘the most beautiful scam on ecology'”also quipped on BFM-TV Sébastien Chenu, deputy for the North and spokesperson for Marine Le Pen, denouncing “such a clumsy flirt” of Emmanuel Macron vis-à-vis the leftist and ecologist electorate.
“I have never been a climatosceptic. I have a project which, precisely, takes the environment into account, takes ecology into account”continued Marine Le Pen on France 3, reporting her exchanges with winegrowers, who “they themselves are noticing a change in the climate”. The candidate assured Wednesday April 13 that she would not go out “not from the Paris agreement” on the climate if elected on April 24.
Jordan Bardella touts ‘economic patriotism’
Mme Le Pen is betting on nuclear power to decarbonize electricity production and wants a “moratorium” on wind turbines and photovoltaics, in addition to dismantling existing wind farms. On the renewable energy side, it prefers to turn to hydroelectricity and geothermal energy. “With us, wind turbines are finished, we will dismantle them.” Good luck, good use of taxpayers’ money! »had mocked Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, the day after a visit to Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) during which he notably went to a wind turbine production plant at sea.
While the National Rally had abandoned this field, Marine Le Pen defends a protectionist and identity ecology. “The best way to protect the planet is to stop the big move of the world, it is to engage localism, that is to say short circuits, economic patriotism”exposed the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, in the program “Political Questions” on France Inter and Franceinfo in partnership with The worldSunday, during a debate with the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal.
Mr. Bardella also pointed out that France would represent “0.2% of greenhouse gas emissions” in the world – an argument that ignores certain pollutants, ignores imported emissions and minimizes the historical responsibility of developed countries – before shifting the responsibility for lower emissions to the United States and China. “Yes, we have to relocate [mais] we also need to decarbonize our industry”replied Mr. Attal, support of Emmanuel Macron.
“You are the candidates for the great warming” et “The planet is the only one you don’t give a gift to”he continued, before attacking the far right again on wind power: “You even want to dig up the wind turbines that exist in France”recalled 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”.
After having estimated, on France 3, that she was “victim of anathema” from Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen said she wanted “Let this campaign unfold argument against argument, project against project”. “Far from the caricatures that are made, I think that [le second tour] is an opportunity to have a serene, healthy exchange between two major civilization projects.also added Mr. Bardella facing Mr. Attal.