Paris (AFP)

With the climate bill, "we do not have an Ayatollist approach but we want to move the lines," Prime Minister Jean Castex stressed Tuesday in front of LREM deputies, according to parliamentary sources.

"We are in the right method, the right content (...). We do not have an Ayatollist approach but we want to move the lines. We are not in the camp of conservatism", indicated the Prime Minister during the LREM group meeting, according to reported comments.

The text, presented as one of the last flagship bills of the five-year term, will be examined in a special committee from March 8, then in the hemicycle from March 29.

It includes a battery of measures on transport, housing, food and consumption.

On Sunday, the Citizen's Climate Convention (CCC), whose work inspired the bill, severely noted the implementation of its proposals by the government, with averages of 2.5 / 10 and 3, 3/10.

Heard on Monday, the Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili assured that there was "no decline in ambition": "if there have been changes in relation to what the Citizens' Convention wanted, this is no is certainly not to change the spirit but to make sure that it can be implemented in the most efficient way possible ".

In the majority, Valérie Petit (Agir Ensemble) quipped Tuesday on the notes of the Convention: "I felt myself coming back to CE2".

It has insisted on the "global system" since the start of the five-year term with "several laws", including that on the circular economy and the fight against waste.

In the opposition, the socialist Guillaume Garot criticized a "bill that rings hollow".

The PS group promises "more than 300 amendments" to defend "concrete proposals" such as "the ban on advertising for the fattest and sweetest products".

"On the question of the energy renovation of housing, we are not at all at the level of the necessary investments", echoed the communist Pierre Dharréville.

On the right, the leader of the LR group Damien Abad denounced "the Lépine competition in the majority to file the most ecological amendment", pleading for "a right-wing ecology, more based on bonuses than on penalties" .

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