Zoé Pallier, edited by Juline Garnier 10:54 a.m., April 18, 2022, modified at 11:00 a.m., April 18, 2022
The finalists meet on Wednesday for the traditional debate between the two rounds, presented by Léa Salamé and Gilles Bouleau.
The two journalists have received a letter from environmental defense associations such as WWF, France Nature Environnement and Attac, which demand that at least 20% of the debate be devoted to global warming.
While the environment is judged by voters as a major subject for the presidential election, associations are mobilizing to give it a greater place in the debate between the two rounds.
According to an Ipsos poll, 68% of French people say that they will take into account the proposals of the candidates in terms of environmental protection to make their choice of vote in 2022. However, the climate emergency still occupies air time. very thin in the logs.
“The ecological crisis occupied an average of 3% of the time. It was the poor relation of this election, even though it is the subject which should be central”, deplores Anne-Lise Vernières, co-founder of the Quota Climat collective. , at the microphone of Europe 1.
A very transversal subject
For the activist, the subject of the environment "will condition our future in the coming years".
She explains this by the fact that it is a "subject that can be treated in a very transversal way", on subjects that we discuss every day "like purchasing power, the energy crisis" .
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"All these subjects can be linked to climate change and the ecological crisis. And at the moment, it is not done. We, our objective, what we would like is that in this debate, we can have concrete answers on how they intend to finance the ecological transition and how they plan to train public and private decision-makers in ecological issues."
To find out if his call and that of the associations will be heard by Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen and the presenters of the debate, answer Wednesday at 9 p.m.