After the time for proposals comes the time for responses. Emmanuel Macron will receive the 150 members of the Citizen's Climate Convention on Monday June 29 at the Elysée Palace "in order to provide a first response to their proposals", while some voices in the majority say they are in favor of a referendum.
Friday morning, the Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition, Elisabeth Borne thus estimated that France Info, that "a referendum is possible if the citizens demand it". "Personally I think it would be a very good referendum on ecological issues," she added.
Soon a referendum?
This hypothesis had been raised by Emmanuel Macron himself as early as January 10, when he had debated with the members of the Convention. He considered it again during a meeting with editorialists this week. Ms. Borne will come to collect the proposals of the members of the convention on Sunday which must be adopted by vote on Sunday during their last session.
And the head of state should finally say more about the fate he will reserve for the proposals of the "150" by receiving them the day after the second round of municipal elections, which promises to be complicated for his majority and could see a sharp increase of the ecological vote. The Convention could propose the restriction of advertising screens for SUVs, heavy taxes on ultra-processed food, the ban on GMO seeds and heated terraces, the limitation of speed on motorways to 110 km / h, lowering working hours to 28 hours per week and the obligation to thermally renovate buildings.
But on what model?
LREM MEP Pascal Canfin on Friday called for a multiple-question referendum before the end of the year on some of these proposals. "You have to give the keys to the French to be able to decide on measures that neither the right nor the left have taken so far," argued the former minister of François Hollande in an interview with the Parisian.
The former director general of the NGO WWF suggested that the referendum be made up of “three to five questions in order to remain understandable by all French people and not to become an instrument of political and partisan recovery, that is to say say a kind of plebiscite for or against Macron ".
The former Minister of the Environment Ségolène Royal considers that a referendum "in this area makes no sense", urging "rapid action". "It is not provided for in the Constitution, it would be political manipulation" on the part of the executive, she said on CNews.
A "new path"
During his last speech on Sunday, Emmanuel Macron spoke of a "new path" around ecology, economic sovereignty, the unity of the Republic and devolution.
Believing that it was necessary “to create the jobs of tomorrow by ecological reconstruction which reconciles production and climate”, he pleaded for “a plan of modernization of the country around the thermal renovation of our buildings, less polluting transport, support for green industries ”.
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