Climate protection: towards an abandonment of the referendum desired by Macron?

The conditions for a referendum on the project including climate protection in the Constitution "have not been met," said

LREM deputy Pieyre-Alexandre Anglade

in the

, the newspaper also assuring that Emmanuel Macron would already be there. waived.

The Senate controlled by the right, and which examines on Monday the text already voted by the National Assembly, "has chosen to empty of its substance the proposal of the citizens' convention for the climate (CCC), and therefore to prevent the 'agreement ", accuses the deputy. 

The bill inspired by the CCC serious in Article 1 of the Basic Law that France "guarantees the preservation of the environment and biological diversity and the fight against climate change".

However, the majority of the Senate rejects the term "guarantees", which according to it gives the preservation of the environment a form of priority over other constitutional principles.

The Senate and the Assembly must adopt the same text for such a revision

The

asserts in a separate article, citing anonymous sources in the majority and at the Elysee Palace, that President Emmanuel Macron has given up organizing the referendum he wanted on this constitutional revision, which would only be possible if the text was adopted in identical terms by the Assembly and the Senate.

Asked about a possible abandonment of the referendum, the LREM deputy assures us: "we still want to offer the French the possibility of deciding the proposal of the members of the CCC to include the fight for the climate in the Constitution". "The commitment of the President of the Republic was not to do so on the basis of a text retracted by the senatorial right," he continues. "I still hope that in public session, from Monday, the senators will raise their level of ambition. But I fear that this is not the case. We will then see if the text is studied again in the Assembly. national ", he adds.