Arthur de Laborde edited by Wassila Belhacine 8:16 p.m., April 16, 2022

Emmanuel Macron held his big meeting between the two rounds this Saturday in Marseille, less than ten days before the second round against Marine Le Pen.

He promised a new ecological turning point in the event of the next five-year term and judged that Marine Le Pen was "climatosceptic". 

For his first major meeting between the two towers, Emmanuel Macron chose Marseille and the legendary Pharo garden.

The candidate president particularly addressed left-wing voters and struck the ecological chord.

Emmanuel Macron first praised his record in this area, citing for example the cessation of several anti-ecological projects such as Notre-Dame-des-Landes, before advocating a much stronger ambition for the next five-year term.

"If we want to respect the Paris agreements, we have to go twice as fast as what we have just done together during these five years," he said.

A minister in charge of ecological planning 

And to accelerate, the candidate president wants in particular to plant 140 million trees in France, to deploy a massive effort to purify the air in all public buildings or to fight to obtain a carbon tax at the borders of the European Union.

He also announced a new method.

“My next Prime Minister will be directly responsible for ecological planning,” Emmanuel Macron announced during his meeting. 

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“She is climatosceptic” 

But Emmanuel Macron mainly attacked Marine Le Pen during his meeting.

"With us, she tells them, carbon neutrality 2050 - which she may place in 2030, she who knows the numbers so well - this carbon neutrality is over! Even incompetent, she is a climatosceptic", declared the outgoing president.

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