Paris (AFP)
Former environmental MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit, close to Emmanuel Macron, believes in an interview with the Journal du dimanche that it is "really silly" on the part of LREM to have favored alliances with the right rather than with the Greens for the second round of the municipal elections.
Mr Cohn-Bendit also calls on Emmanuel Macron to "take back the heart of what the citizens' convention for the climate formulates, which must hand over its work on Sunday.
According to him, the head of state "must submit to a referendum the reform of the Constitution to integrate an ecological component, as well as the reduction of speed on highways and a large number of proposals that would confirm an ecological and democratic renovation" .
Concerning the municipal elections, Mr. Cohn-Bendit considers that "it's really silly" on the part of LREM "to build an anti-ecological rampart, to walk hand in hand with the conservative right and with nerdy people, like Gérard Collomb , which are politically finished ".
The June 28 poll promises to be particularly complicated for La République en Marche, which has forged alliances with the right in several major cities, such as Lyon, Bordeaux and Strasbourg, hitting the left wing of the presidential party, already under strain. during this quinquennium.
"It's stupid, it's useless and it's counterproductive (...) Wherever environmentalists are in a position to take the town hall, I would vote green", assures Mr. Cohn-Bendit who exchanges regularly with M Macron.
He also scratches the European deputy EELV Yannick Jadot who "is afraid of his shadow" according to him, knowing that he "would be immediately treated as a traitor by his friends" if he "collaborated with Emmanuel Macron on specific points to make advance the ecological transition. "
Several voices in the majority, including the Minister of Ecological Transition Elisabeth Borne, urged Emmanuel Macron to organize a referendum on the ecological question. The head of state is to receive the 150 members of the Citizen's Climate Convention on Monday June 29 at the Elysée Palace "in order to provide a first response to their proposals".
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