Several elected EELV have considered this hypothesis, provoking indignant reactions. The boss of the party, Julien Bayou, tempers.
Julien Bayou will surely remember this interview. Asked on BFM-TV about the ban on private swimming pools, the ecologist deputy created controversy. “I do not say no. I tell you that the challenge is to repair the effects of climate change, to mitigate its future effects, and to prepare the country: we need a vast adaptation plan.he said.
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On Twitter, the declaration of the national secretary of Europe Ecology The Greens was indeed greeted with virulence. So much so that Julien Bayou insisted on clarifying his remarks. “We are not for the ban on swimming pools: they wanted me to say that”rectifies the elected representative of Paris Figaro.“What we want is a social pricing of water via public authorities. Paris has already put it back in place, Lyon and Bordeaux will soon do so. What matters to us is to question the uses of water: filling a swimming pool should not be put on the same level as washing your children“, he continues.
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Wednesday morning, on Europe 1, the vice-president of the EELV group in the National Assembly Sandra Regol however seemed less categorical on the question. “That’s one of the possible avenues. I’m not saying I’m excited about it, but what do you want us to do to keep having water everywhere? asks the Green MP. “Yes, we have to think about solutions, and some are a bit controversial. What we want is for every Frenchman and every Frenchwoman to have water”, she continues.
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“Every time the ecologists speak, I have the impression that it is controversial”
With the approach of discussions on the bill to accelerate renewable energies, certain heavyweights of the majority have stepped up to show their disagreement with the words of the elected environmentalist. “Yesterday, planes. Today, swimming pools. Tomorrow the barbecues (…) At this rate, the EELV deputies will soon have to tell us what they want to authorize”, tweeted Guillaume Kasbarian, Renaissance deputy. Marlène Schiappa, Minister Delegate for the Social and Solidarity Economy and Consumer Affairs, also made fun of the positions taken by the Greens.
But in Brussels, some members of the majority take a different position. Pascal Canfin, Renew Europe MEP, did not close the door to the proposal. “Ban private swimming pools? The question is legitimate and we should not be afraid of it, it is a subject of common sense of collective use of priorities“, he said on RTL, convinced that he would be “utopian” “to think that we can continue tomorrow as today“.
The controversy had already swelled on social networks when, a few days earlier, in an interview with the newspaper Release Julien Bayou proposed to “ban private jets”. “Every time the ecologists speak, I have the impression that it is controversial”, deplores Pauline Rapilly Ferniot, municipal councilor of Boulogne-Billancourt and co-founder of the Ibiza collective. Julien Bayou’s observation is similar: “There is a scapegoat side among environmentalists”.
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