Paris (AFP)
Emmanuel Macron's visit to the Mont Blanc massif is "a summit of rubbish and hypocrisy" in the field of ecology, criticized LFI MP François Ruffin on Thursday.
"I ask Emmanuel Macron, who is president of the Republic, not president of the departmental council of Haute-Savoie, not to legislate on who will be able to climb at the top of Mont-Blanc", but "structural measures on how we do less of greenhouse gases in this country, and for that it is necessary that there are fewer trucks crossing it ", underlined Mr. Ruffin on Europe 1.
Emmanuel Macron "will say fewer tourists" to Mont Blanc, "why not", said the deputy, but there is in France "no measures taken in piggyback", he lamented.
Adrien Quatennens, LFI deputy and number two in the movement, also criticized a President of the Republic who claims to be "champion of the Earth" when he is "champion of communication".
He opposed on Sud Radio the fact that "everyone is talking about the ecological turning point of Emmanuel Macron" while "tartuffes of ecology" according to him, the MEPs Renew Pascal Canfin, Nathalie Loiseau and Stéphane Séjourné, voted on Wednesday in the European parliament the free trade agreement with Vietnam "which crushes all of France's commitments in the area of climate", he accused.
During a symbolic visit to initiate the ecological shift of his five-year term, Emmanuel Macron traveled a long Thursday morning in the Mer de Glace deprived of snow this year, noting the impacts of global warming on the glacier.
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