In the spotlight: the climate bill under pressure from lobbies

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By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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“Home 

straight for the bill resulting from the work of the Citizen's Climate Convention.

The fruit of fifteen months of intense labor for its 150 members has a bitter taste,

estimates

Liberation.

After having been sent to the bodies of mandatory consultations, including the Economic, Social and Environmental Council which split a very critical opinion, the text must be presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.

What constitutes a working basis, and will undoubtedly be widely amended by parliamentarians, will then have to be studied by the National Assembly from March.

 "

Liberation

which therefore denounces the weight of the lobbies, the representatives of interests, as they are called.

Indeed, specifies the newspaper, “ 

this bill 'climate and resilience'

,

drafted by 150 citizens according to the model desired by the Head of State, has not been so resilient in the face of attacks from consulting firms, advertising , lawyers and other political communications officers, frightened by the idea that things must be changed.

The inequality of resources is striking between these representatives of the polluting industry and the citizens who represent the interests of future generations.

 "

The sausage fair

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Example: the offense of ecocide, carried by the Minister for the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili and the Keeper of the Seals, Éric Dupond-Moretti.

The creation of this environmental crime frightened the economic sphere and especially the industrialists.

The AFEP (the French Association of Private Enterprises) and the MEDEF, the employers, have thus stepped up to the plate, to the highest, that is to say in Matignon.

And ministries have been urged to find wording that reassures businesses.

Result: delivered late, the articles on these new offenses were emptied of their substance.

Disillusioned comment from a member of the Citizen's Climate Convention: “ 

the President assured that nothing would be done behind the curtain.

There, the measure is reduced and we see who benefits from the

'non-penalty'. 

"

The National Assembly is due to take up the bill in March.

"

 'It's going to be the sausage fair'

,

sighs in advance a minister,

quoted by

Le Monde,

who anticipates a shower of amendments from the majority.

On this occasion,

points out the evening daily,

the attitude of the deputies of In common, the micro-party founded by Barbara Pompili within the majority, will be closely scrutinized.

In the meantime, the minister is trying to dig her furrow on other subjects.

In January, this anti-nuclear activist was thus delighted that a study described as 'technically possible' a future based entirely on renewable energies.

'Our energy and ecological future goes through nuclear power', affirmed, however, last December, Emmanuel Macron during a trip to Le Creusot.

Barbara Pompili was then next to him, walled up in the silence of a cathedral.

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Presidential election of 2022: Macron and Le Pen polish their weapons

On the front page of

Le Figaro,

“ 

Macron and Le Pen are betting on a new duel in 2022 (…): according to an Ifop survey for Le Figaro, 67% of the French are planning a second round similar to that of 2017 for the presidential election.

If they deplore this announced duel, those polled are struggling to identify in the oppositions candidates likely to prevent it.

 "

Indeed, points out the newspaper, “ 

nobody really emerges to bring the alternative to this duel announced regularly in the polls.

On the right, Xavier Bertrand stands out but with only 27% of those questioned who believe that he would make a good candidate.

(…) And on the left, almost all the putative candidates are on an equal footing, from Anne Hidalgo (20%) to Jean-Luc Mélenchon (18%) via Arnaud Montebourg (16%).

As for environmentalists, they are ahead: Yannick Jadot is only considered a good candidate by 12% of those polled.

 "

Marine Le Pen therefore has the wind in its sails…, notes

Le Figaro

Confirmed by the polls, sure of her comeback, “

 the president of the RN is betting on her debate with Gerald Darmanin, Thursday evening, to make people forget her failed performance during the 2017 presidential election.

Marine Le Pen who has already strangled the 'gaps

'

, she said, of the Minister of the Interior, his 'retreats'

and his shortcomings, during a recent pass of arms to the Assembly.

An exchange which laid the foundations for the debate which will oppose them Thursday evening on France 2 for 45 minutes.

 The duel from a distance has already started ...

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