Criticized and targeted by a petition for his polluting round trip by private jet to the polls during the first round, the Prime Minister does not let go of the plane to vote in Occitania in the second.
The Prime Minister’s carbon footprint will increase further on Sunday. Once his ballot has been slipped into the ballot box at his polling station in Prades, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, he will return to Paris by plane, according to the regional newspaper free lunch. But this time, he will take a commercial line. A small change that does not break with his addiction to air transport.
Still no power of attorney
In the first round, Jean Castex had been criticized for his Paris-Prades express round trip with a Falcon de la République, the official government jet. What burn the equivalent of half a year of CO2 emissions of a French. He stayed two hours there for a few images broadcast on BFM TV and a photo all smiles posted on social networks. This trip had been controversial, a few days after the publication of an IPCC report devoted to the means of mitigating climate change.
As a reminder, domestic flights by plane generate almost sixty times more greenhouse gas emissions than the train (per passenger and per km), according to the French Environment and Climate Control Agency. ‘energy.
“A Prime Minister – me, my predecessors, my successors – must be able to repatriate to Paris very quickly in case there are dramatic events. It’s like that. It is not me who set these rules and it is not I who will change them. In the first round, I had imperatives in Paris. The ordinary service conditions of Perpignan did not make it possible to achieve these security conditions, so I used the means of the State”, did he try to justify himself to the Free lunch.
An online petition had been launched to encourage him to make proxies for the upcoming elections. The French can take steps until the day before the election. Obviously, the Prime Minister refuses.