Is the referendum on the climate and the environment a political trap?

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Emmanuel Macron during the CCL, in Paris on December 14, 2020. REUTERS - POOL

By: Guillaume Naudin Follow

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It was a request from the Citizen's Convention for the Climate, it is now a wish formulated a few days ago by Emmanuel Macron.

This wish is that the defense of the climate and the environment be integrated into article 1 of the constitution and that this constitutional reform be submitted to referendum.

Emmanuel Macron said it in front of the convention, he wants this vote to be organized by the end of 2022, which is the year of the presidential election.

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It is this calendar and the uncertainty linked to the procedure that gives rise to fears of ulterior motives everywhere on the political spectrum.

Is the referendum on the climate and the environment a political trap?

This is the question of the day.

To discuss it

:

Benjamin Morel

, lecturer in public law at Panthéon Assas University, author of the book

Les bases du droit constitutionnel;

Marie Toussaint

, ecologist MEP (EELV) and co-founder of the association “Notre affaires à tous”;

Grégoire Fraty

, he is among the 150 people drawn to form the Citizen's Convention for the climate launched in October 2019, administrator of the association “les 150” which brings together most of the participants in the Citizen's Convention for the Climate (CCC ).

He is one of the people who challenged and proposed this referendum to Emmanuel Macron.

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