Emmanuel Macron announces a referendum to include the fight for the climate in the Constitution -

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Emmanuel Macron announced Monday that a referendum would be organized to integrate climate defense and environmental preservation into the Constitution if this reform were adopted by Parliament.

"A constitutional reform in one article"

"It will be a constitutional reform in one article" which "must first go through the National Assembly then the Senate and be voted on in identical terms.

That day, it will be submitted to a referendum, ”declared the Head of State at the conclusion of a meeting with the Citizen's Climate Convention.

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