The weeks pass and this file is, according to them, still not the priority of the candidates.

Tens of thousands of people, according to the organizers, demonstrated this Saturday across France, one month before the first round of the presidential election, so that the climate emergency is better taken into account by the contenders for the Elysée.

Brandishing in particular in the Paris parade hundreds of signs “We talk about it when?

“, the demonstrators intended to denounce the absence of climate issues in the campaign, in particular in the media, where these subjects only occupied, according to a “barometer” set up by NGOs, “1.5% of speaking time”. over the last week studied (February 28 to March 6).

135 steps across the country

More than 550 NGOs, associations or collectives called for these marches, called "Look up" (Look up) in reference to the film "Don't look up", a metaphor for the climate crisis which was a hit on Netflix.

Unions and parties had also called for participation, such as France insoumise, EELV or the PS, whose respective candidates Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo came to the Paris demonstration.

All three, as well as Fabien Roussel (PCF) and Philippe Poutou (NPA) must participate separately on Sunday in a program on the Twitch channel of political streamer Jean Massiet, without the other candidates, who had been invited.

A total of 135 marches took place across the country, bringing together 80,000 people according to the organizers, including 32,000 for the Paris parade, 8,000 in Lyon or 1,800 in Nantes.

“There is no more respect for the planet”

“The hour is more than serious, I am 34 years old and I saw nature taking a shovel in the face.

There is no more respect for the planet, we must protect this land that we will leave to our children.

The policies are not up to the challenges,” said Lydie Lampin Bernand, 34, who holds the head banner “Together for the climate” in the Lille demonstration, which brought together some 800 people according to the prefecture.

A recurring criticism among the demonstrators, as in the "unitary call" of the organizers, who denounces the fact that "in France in 2022, the greatest threat that humanity has ever known is passed over in silence in the middle of an election period, as our future hangs in the balance.

"Everyone is concerned, it's a fair, global and essential fight", insists Livie Châtelais, at the Rennes demonstration, which gathered around 700 people according to the police, more than a thousand according to the organizers. .

For this 42-year-old pediatrician, “global warming will also generate a lot of refugees and a lot of wars”.

A new call for April 9

Both organizers and demonstrators recognize that Russia's invasion of Ukraine obviously monopolized attention, but point out that the climate issue was even before this dramatic news largely absent from electoral debates.

And to underline the importance of energy issues in geopolitics, via the slogan "Peace, climate, same fight!"

», showing their solidarity with Ukraine.

“Vladimir Putin's criminal regime is also financed by this dependence on fossil fuels.

Getting out of fossil fuels is necessary for the climate and for a more stable world,” explains Lorette Philippot, from Friends of the Earth France.

The organizers are already calling for a new series of climate marches on April 9, on the eve of the first round of the presidential election.

In the meantime, another mobilization is to take place on March 25, as part of the “global youth strikes” initiated by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.

For its part, an “ecological collective” called “La Braise”, claimed an action filmed on video, tagging in particular “Assassin” at the entrance to the Parisian offices of the Russian gas giant Gazprom.

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