Paris (AFP)

EELV MEP Yannick Jadot ruled on Sunday that the five-year term was "lost for the climate", and LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon accused the government of "continually kicking", on the eve of a meeting of Emmanuel Macron with the Citizen's Convention for the Climate.

Asked in the RTL / LCI / Le Figaro Grand Jury on a possible announcement by Emmanuel Macron on a referendum to fight against global warming, Yannick Jadot said he would support this referendum "if the idea is to strengthen the Constitution so that every public policy is subjected to a climate audit ".

But if this referendum "were decided, it would probably arrive in a year, conveniently just before the presidential election, to end a five-year term lost for the climate and ecology, and that is a problem for me", added Yannick Jadot, very criticism in particular on the ambitions of thermal renovation of housing or renewable energies.

For his part, Jean-Luc Mélenchon considered in "BFM Politics" that there was "truth in this method" of the Convention consisting in drawing lots of citizens.

But he "reproaches this government for continuously kicking in."

"As soon as there is a problem, he creates a Théodule commission (...), there are people of good will who do the job, and at the exit we tell them, + it's not because you have proposed or decided, whether it is the Bible or the Koran, + "he denounced.

He took up the recent declarations of the president to Brut: "I do not mean that because the 150 citizens wrote something, it is the Bible or the Koran".

Like the former minister Nicolas Hulot, who felt that "we have already lost the climate fight", the 2022 presidential candidate thinks "it is lost".

"Climate change will take place (...) now we must do everything we can to limit the factors causing climate change".

LREM MEP Pascal Canfin, for his part, estimated in the JDD that ecology was "not the personal story" of President Macron, but that he had "moved, going further than any president before him ":" He is in transition ".

For Mr. Canfin, "what came out of the Citizens' Convention will very quickly appear to be insufficient".

He "pleads with Emmanuel Macron to give a new mandate to the 150 citizens from next week".

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