In the fight for Green voters, French President Emmanuel Macron has promised a stronger focus on climate and environmental protection policy if he is re-elected.
"My next prime minister will be directly involved in ecological planning," Macron told supporters in Marseille on Saturday.
Because climate protection, this "fight of the century", affects all areas of life and politics.
France could become “the great nation of ecology”.
Macron accused his challenger, right-wing Marine Le Pen, of being a climate change skeptic and incompetent on the subject.
Le Pen wants to have wind turbines dismantled and thus waste taxpayers' money.
The runoff between him and Le Pen on April 24 was a “referendum for or against ecology”.
With it comes new offshore wind farms, more solar power, newly planted trees and possibly a new "celebration of nature" that could be held in May.
Before the decisive second round of the election, Macron and Le Pen also have to convince people outside of their core constituency.
Younger voters gave their votes to leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon particularly often in the first round.
Many also abstained.
Observers are convinced that Macron is trying to win over these voters with issues such as social justice and environmental protection.
Shortly after his defeat in the first round, Mélenchon had already called for Le Pen not to be voted for.
On Saturday, Macron announced that the prime minister would be flanked by two other climate policy ministers.
One to take care of energy planning and lead France out of fossil fuel energy production.
The other should take over the ecological planning in the area and decentralize the change.