"He had five years to act and he didn't. He was condemned for climate inaction, so there is no reason to truly believe his promises," Bayou told franceinfo, while assuring that he would vote for Emmanuel Macron on April 24 "to beat the far right".

The president-candidate delivered a long plea in favor of ecology in Marseille on Saturday, saying he had "heard" the message of the voters in the first round.

He notably promised to appoint a Prime Minister "directly in charge of ecological planning", a concept dear to Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Julien Bayou recalled it on Sunday: "I don't expect anything from Emmanuel Macron, I don't ask him for anything. My vote and the vote of the environmentalists is not worth discharge, is not worth support".

"The issue of April 24 is not whether Emmanuel Macron is credible on ecology. Of course not. The challenge is to beat the far right", according to him.

According to the boss of EELV, France "has taken an incredible delay" in terms of thermal renovation, organic farming, protection of biodiversity in particular.

And "the only solution" so that a new Macron five-year term is "not a five-year term of climate inaction like the one we are ending is that there are finally environmental deputies in the Assembly".

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