INTERVIEW
For part of the right, Greta Thunberg is not welcome in the National Assembly. Invited Tuesday at a meeting at the Palais Bourbon, the Swedish face of the fight against global warming will also attend questions to the government. But several deputies LR and RN have already indicated that they would not listen to his intervention. Among them, the elected RN of North Sebastien Chenu. At the microphone of Europe 1, he explains his refusal to go "to prostrate" in front of the girl of 16 years.
"Greta Thunberg does not come to debate (...) She comes to hold a speech," regrets the elected, before slamming: "We imagine that a 16-year-old child would have some difficulties in responding to substantive arguments" .
"An injunction of the politically correct"
The young activist, to whom he recognizes only a "media legitimacy" and "a certain sincerity", "brings nothing in the debate, no quantified facts, no solutions," still hurts the deputy.
"I do not see why, apart from this injunction of politically correct, we should prostrate ourselves before a girl who would deliver a lenient speech," asks Sebastien Chenu, who is concerned about the "possible instrumentalization" of Greta Thunberg. For the elected of the North, the Swede has an ideology "which goes in only one direction (...) it makes bear on the only West the responsibility for the phenomena of global warming, it speaks about abandonment of the nuclear, decay" .
"Who is behind Greta Thunberg?"
"Who is behind Greta Thunberg?" Asks the elected representative. "I will not be led to believe that a 16-year-old can walk around the world innocently, hold conferences without being contradicted, without being manipulated."
Finally, the MEP believes that Greta Thunberg's presence in the National Assembly is a "hypocrisy", given the government's action for the environment. "When it goes again, the government will ask MEPs to vote CETA, a treaty that will kill our agriculture and import transgenic salmon and beef hormone," Sebastien Chenu annoys, denouncing "an incredible smoke curtain" .
Gretha Thunberg was invited by the 162 deputies of the transpartisan climate group named "Accélérons" to a meeting open to other parliamentarians. On the side of LR, the Vaucluse MP Julien Aubert and the elected Yonne Guillaume Larrivé, both candidates for the presidency of the party, also announced that he would boycott the meeting.