Damien Abad, president of the Les Républicains group in the National Assembly, April 1, 2021. -

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The executive will not obtain a consensus on the climate bill.

LR deputies will indeed not vote on the text under consideration by the National Assembly.

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, the president of the Les Républicains group, Damien Abad, indicates that he does not believe "that the protection of the environment will go through the increase in taxes or by the courts".

The question is now whether the first opposition group at the Palais Bourbon will abstain or vote against this text carried by Minister Barbara Pompili.

The LR group has already largely abstained in mid-March on the bill providing for the inclusion of climate in the Constitution.

Neither immobility nor dogmatism

“We are not in the trendy standstill of LREM, nor in the dogmatism of the left.

The LR deputies will propose in the coming days a base of around sixty proposals, ”specifies Damien Abad, while all political parties now claim to be environmentalists.

"Faced with those who defend a punitive and moralizing ecology oriented towards taxation and malus, we must embody an" eco-modernism ": an ecology oriented towards innovation, bonuses, incentives and the circular economy", notes the elected from Ain.

He suggests, for example, removing the cap on housing renovation aid, reducing VAT on train tickets and public transport, stopping the sale of new thermal vehicles from 2035, and even creating a “bonus-malus”. green corporate tax ”to encourage companies to take action on the environment.

A right-wing ecology is according to him "an ecology at the service of the purchasing power of the French".

"The right must be popular and social, and in my eyes this goes through the field of the environment", insists Damien Abad, whose party intends to take an "environmental turn" as the 2022 presidential election approaches.

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