• Jean-Luc Mélenchon gives the last big meeting before the first round of the presidential election this Tuesday evening simultaneously in 12 cities in France, thanks to his hologram.

  • He presented his ecological planning project for the first time in 2008, at the Reims congress of the Socialist Party when he had just announced that he was leaving the party.

  • Jean-Luc Mélenchon now integrates into his ecological planning, the idea of ​​a constitutionalized common rule: the green rule.

“Everyone is ready to understand that to act seriously and truly, ecological planning is necessary.

That was in 2008. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then a senator from Essonne, had just walked out of the Socialist Party, of which he had been a member since 1976.

Before bowing out, the future boss of La France insoumise had, in his general contribution to the Reims congress, wanted to present an idea which, at the time, had gone almost unnoticed and which clashed with the prevailing discourse on growth. : "Redefining our models of production, consumption and exchange" over a long period of time to respond "to the general interest of humanity".

With, in subtext, the notions of ecological disaster and emergency already very present.

A year earlier, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its 4th assessment report on climate change, attesting to an undeniable increase in temperatures due to greenhouse gas emissions.

A constitutionalized common rule

Twenty-two years later, the candidate goes further in his defense of ecological planning.

“It is time to practice the green rule, that is to say no longer to take from nature more than what it is capable of replenishing,” he said on January 16, in Nantes, during its “immersive and sensory” meeting.

Chance of the calendar, a few months later, it was the third part of the 6th IPCC report which was unveiled to the public.

And insisted, for once, on the climate emergency and the solutions to be implemented to reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activities.

Already present in its 2017 program, and before that, in that of 2012 under the colors of the Left Front, this ecological planning has been developed.

The candidate now proposes the idea of ​​a constitutionalized common rule governing our consumption which would be modeled on the production capacities of the planet.

This green rule is further complemented by a "blue rule".

It is necessary to have, with the green rule (not to take from nature more than it can replenish), a blue rule which applies this principle to water for its use and for the protection of its quality.

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— Jean-Luc Melenchon (@JLMelenchon) April 10, 2021


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Jean-Luc Mélenchon thus wished, during the campaign, to bring the issue of access to water and the protection of its cycle to the forefront of the political scene.

But the candidate admitted to having failed to impose this theme of water, in the campaign, during his passage on the set of France 2 for the program Elysée 2022, on March 31.

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