Has the executive given up on the climate referendum, as the

JDD

writes

 ?

The hypothesis triggers the wrath of environmentalists who demonstrate this Sunday, while the majority deny.

Government spokesman Gabriel Attal "wished" on France 3 that the referendum take place, accusing the Senate, with a right-wing majority, of obstructing the bill aiming to include climate protection in the Basic Law and therefore to “prevent it from being held”.

The Elysee had previously assured that the modification of article 1 of the Constitution to integrate climate protection was "in no way buried", without mentioning the referendum by which the president wishes to validate this change.

"If things remain as they are, there will be no referendum," President of the Assembly Richard Ferrand admitted on Radio J.

“In the Senate there is a more conservative majority (…) on environmental issues”.

A bill inspired by the Citizens' Convention

The bill, inspired by the Citizen's Convention for the Climate (CCC), writes in article 1 of the Constitution that France "guarantees the preservation of the environment and biological diversity and the fight against climate change" . However, the majority of the Senate rejects the term “guarantees”, which according to it gives the preservation of the environment a form of priority over other constitutional principles.

The Senate must examine the text already voted by the Assembly on Monday.

Constitutional revision is only possible if the text is adopted in identical terms by the Assembly and the Senate.

The revision can then, at the choice of the president, be either submitted to a referendum or to Parliament meeting in Congress.

The latter decides by a 3 / 5th majority.

“We want this referendum to take place, we don't bury it at all.

The Senate is probably looking to bury him.

He can still change his mind since the text will be discussed in public session in the coming days, ”insisted Gabriel Attal.

"It's Emmanuel Macron's fault"

"It is the fault of Emmanuel Macron", who made "as usual a promise that he could not keep", accused on FranceInfo the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou. Candidate at the top of the list in Ile-de-France for the regional elections in June, he addressed the participants in the climate marches, assuring them that EELV would "translate into action" in the regions the proposals of the CCC. .

The right, also engaged in a standoff with the majority in the regional elections, accused the head of state of "hypocrisy".

The tension, on this side, is part of the context of a takeover bid pursued by Emmanuel Macron on the electorate of the moderate right in view of 2022. “Even before the Senate has voted anything and that the discussion with the National Assembly does not engage, Emmanuel Macron accuses us of blocking to justify the cancellation of a referendum which he did not want.

Maneuvering and hypocrisy will be the hallmarks of this last year in office, ”tweeted senator leader LR Bruno Retailleau.

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