The EELV mayor of Poitiers, Léonore Moncond'huy.

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The environmentalist mayor of Poitiers has attracted some strong national political reactions, after a municipal council where a reduction in subsidies to local flying clubs was voted, and raised the idea that "the air must no longer be part of the dreams of 'children', due to a climate emergency.

The city council of March 29, chaired by the mayor Léonore Moncond'huy voted a "rebalancing" of subsidies to sports associations, for the benefit of some in great difficulty due to the pandemic, and in particular voted the reduction of subsidies to two Poitiers flying clubs.

During the debate, the municipal majority recalled that the survival of the associations in question is "not threatened" by the drop in subsidies.

But Léonore Moncond'huy assured "assume" the fact that "public money should no longer finance sports based on the consumption of exhaustible resources".

“The issue of the climate emergency involves reviewing all of our software,” she said.

While defending herself from a "dogmatic position", she considered that "the air is sad, but should no longer be part of children's dreams today".

A political "buzz"

The Minister of Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari (LREM), a former pilot, reacted strongly in a tweet on Friday, deploring “authoritarian and moribund rantings”, and invoking the aviator and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “Do your life a dream, and a dream a reality ”.

Marine Le Pen, president of the RN, denounced on her Twitter account "the true face of these" greens "who have nothing environmental" but according to her want "to prohibit, punish, charge, curb innovation, destroy sectors of industrial excellence such as nuclear and aeronautics, attacking children's dreams ”.

In the entourage of the mayor of Poitiers, we regretted a political "buzz", "relating more to a sentence than to the drop in subsidies", and obscuring all the aid decided on associations in great difficulty.

But we have also assumed that the climate emergency undoubtedly leads to “making people dream differently”, and young people to “building other imaginations” that do not necessarily go through the air.

The EELV mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle for his part on Saturday supported his counterpart from Poitou.

“Léonore Moncond'huy is telling the truth,” he tweeted.

Crossing France or the planet in a #plane every weekend is the dream of our parents, less of our children.

Faced with the upheavals of the world, let us support the transition of our aeronautical industry, as the @Conv_Citoyenne asks ”

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