No, Macron has not really abolished domestic flights in France

• Sunday, in a video facing the camera, Emmanuel Macron answered questions from Internet users about ecology.

  In particular, he was questioned about the measures required by the Citizen's Climate Convention.

• The President of the Republic notably argued that the measure requiring the abolition of domestic flights of less than 2:30 hours had been respected.

• But it is not exactly the request of the Citizens' Convention that was more ambitious.

  Moreover, the law is still blocked in Brussels.

On Sunday, Emmanuel Macron once again engaged in a particular communication exercise worthy of a video that could be found on

platforms , such as Twitch.

Facing the camera, like a real Youtuber, the Head of State answered questions asked a few days earlier by Internet users about ecology.

But during the video, no speaker can counterbalance Emmanuel Macron's assertions.

After sifting through the twelve minutes of responses,

notably noticed an inaccuracy when the Head of State responded to the climate influencer Bon Pote.

“When are you going to apply the measures proposed by the Citizens' Climate Convention and keep your word?

asked the blogger.

To prove his action, the President of the Republic notably cited the example of the abolition of domestic flights in France, which was one of the 146 proposals adopted by the Convention.

But if Emmanuel Macron affirms that this measure is adopted, the reality is more complex.

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In an affirmative tone, the president advanced during his video to have carried out one of the requests of the Citizen's Convention for the climate: "The abolition of domestic flights when the same train journey exists and that it lasts less than 2h30, it is done ".

The problem is that this statement does not really correspond to the request made by the citizens during the Convention.

In the validated proposals, we find this measure in the theme “Getting around”.

The citizens' panel had adopted the following proposal: "Gradually organize the end of air traffic on domestic flights by 2025, only on lines where there is a satisfactory low-carbon alternative in terms of price and time (on a journey of less 4 hours).

Not brave enough

However, in 2021, at the time of the Climate bill, Parliament gave the green light for the threshold of 2h30, and not 4 hours.

This decision therefore makes it possible to remove some interior lines, but not all.

In total, twelve airlines were covered by the Citizens' Convention, but less than five routes could ultimately be suspended in the future: Paris to Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes, or Rennes and Lyon-Marseille.

Trips to Marseille or Nice are excluded.

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But that's not all.

Derogations must be provided for routes with connecting passengers.

This is particularly the case for the Paris-Bordeaux link.

“The measure has nothing to do with the one requested at the start.

Our goal is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030. But that is not enough, ”regrets a member of the Convention to

.

At the time of the vote, the policies were justified by explaining that removing lines had a cost for employment, but also for access to certain territories.

"We chose (the threshold in the process of) 2:30, because 4 hours it comes to dry up often landlocked territories like the great Massif Central... It would be iniquitous in terms of the equity of the territories", had argued the Minister of Transport of the Jean-Baptiste Djebbari era.

It blocks in Brussels

During his video, Emmanuel Macron also seems to forget to mention that French law is currently blocked at European level, as the media

The text must pass before the European Commission to “verify its compatibility with European law”.

“A purely procedural decision”, reveals a spokesperson to our colleagues.

Brussels' review of the law could take time, as the decision does not have many precedents in Europe.

After the green light from the Commission, the measure will have to pass before the Council of State.

So it's not completely done yet.

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