Emmanuel Macron promised Saturday in Marseille that, if he is re-elected, his Prime Minister will be “directly responsible for ecological planning”, in order to go “twice as fast” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “The policy that I will pursue in the next five years will be ecological or it will not be”, he launched during a meeting in the gardens of the Pharo, under a bright sun. In front of a few thousand people, he promised a “complete renewal” of his policy, saying he had “heard” the message of the first round where the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon, champion of ecological planning, almost caused surprise and access in the second round.
Shock proposal: Emmanuel Macron promised a Prime Minister “directly in charge of ecological planning”, “supported by two strong ministers”. A “minister of energy planning”, who “will have the mission of making France the first major nation to get out of oil, gas and coal”.
And a minister “responsible for territorial ecological planning” who, in a “massive decentralization agenda”, will work to “change our means of getting around on a daily basis”, “reinvest in river and rail freight”, “accelerate the renovation of housing, at least 700,000 per year over the next 5 years”, or “act for the quality of water, air, food”.
“We haven’t done anything in these five years”
“This ecological message from the first round, today we must know how to give it a new perspective for April 24 and the years to come,” he insisted, while defending his record.
“We have not done anything during these five years”, underlined Emmanuel Macron, citing in particular “Notre-Dame-des-Landes, Europacity, the Golden Mountain in Guyana, Terminal 4 in Roissy”. “All these projects, who stopped them because they weren’t ecological? It’s us, not them!”
“We have been twice as fast as the previous two five-year periods to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We have reduced them by 12% in five years. That is to say: inaction, not at home! “, he pointed out.
“But what the IPCC still told us is that it’s not enough, we have to go twice as fast. You know what? We’re going to do it,” he added, saying he wanted to reconcile two anxieties. , that of those who fear a “more viable planet” and that of “those who fear too rapid a change”.
“I have no desire to do 5 more years. No, I don’t want to do them more, I want to completely overhaul. I want it to be 5 years of complete renewal”, he underlined. Attacking his opponent in the second round Marine Le Pen – “even incompetent, she is climatosceptic” – he launched to the militants: “Don’t whistle the far right, beat it on April 24.”