Marine Le Pen claims to have “never been a climatosceptic” and says she is “victim of anathema” on ecology – Le Monde

Marine Le Pen during a campaign trip to the operation of a cereal farmer, in Soucy (Yonne), Monday April 11, 2022. AGNES DHERBEYS / MYOP FOR “THE WORLD” Marine Le Pen and her supporters tried to answer, Sunday April 17, to the attacks of Emmanuel Macron on the program of the National Rally (RN) concerning the climate and ecology, the day after a meeting in Marseilles during which the candidate president made the ecological transition a pivotal point of his opposition to the extreme right. “Even incompetent, she is climatosceptic,” Mr. Macron notably said of Ms. Le Pen, describing the second round of April 24 as a “choice of civilization” and a political “referendum”, in particular on ecology. ” Since the moment when [Emmanuel Macron] entered the campaign, he made the choice to do so on the anathema, on the insult, even, towards me”, replied the deputy of Pas-de-Calais, in the program “Sunday in politics” recorded Saturday afternoon and broadcast Sunday. “In Marseille, it was” more beautiful the scam on ecology “”, also ironically on BFM-TV Sébastien Chenu, deputy of the North and spokesperson for Marine Le Pen, denouncing “such a clumsy flirt” of Emmanuel Macron vis-à-vis the leftist and ecologist electorate. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers In Marseille, Emmanuel Macron projects France into a “great ecological nation” to seduce the left-wing electorate “I have never been a climatosceptic. I have a project which, precisely, takes the environment into account, takes ecology into account”, continued Marine Le Pen on France 3, reporting her exchanges with winegrowers, who “themselves note a change in the climate “. The candidate assured Wednesday April 13 that she would “not leave the Paris agreement” on the climate if she were elected on April 24. Jordan Bardella boasts of “economic patriotism” Ms. Le Pen is betting on nuclear power to decarbonize electricity production and wants a “moratorium” on wind turbines and photovoltaics, in addition to dismantling existing wind farms. On the renewable energy side, it prefers to turn to hydroelectricity and geothermal energy. “With us, wind turbines are finished, we will dismantle them.” Good luck, good use of taxpayers’ money! “, had mocked Emmanuel Macron on Saturday, the day after a visit to Le Havre (Seine-Maritime) during which he notably went to a wind turbine production plant at sea. Read the editorial: Marine Le Pen: a dangerous project for the climate While the National Rally had abandoned this field, Marine Le Pen defends a protectionist and identity ecology. “The best way to protect the planet is to stop the big move in the world, it is to engage localism, that is to say short circuits, economic patriotism”, exposed the president. of the RN, Jordan Bardella, in the program “Political Questions” on France Inter and Franceinfo in partnership with Le Monde, Sunday, during a debate with the government spokesperson, Gabriel Attal. Mr. Bardella also put forward that France would represent “0.2% of greenhouse gas emissions” in the world – an argument which leaves aside certain pollutants, ignores imported emissions and minimizes the historical responsibility of countries. developed – before shifting responsibility for lower emissions to the United States and China. “Yes, we have to relocate [mais] we must also decarbonize our industry, ”replied Mr. Attal, support of Emmanuel Macron. “You are the candidates of the great warming” and “the planet is the only one to which you are not giving a gift”, he continued, before attacking the far right again on wind power: ” You even want to dig up the wind turbines that exist in France”, recalled Gabriel Attal, who added that “we would then be the only country in the world in the Paris agreement to stop the renewable energies which we need”. Read also: Article reserved for our subscribers Marine Le Pen’s disastrous project to lower electricity prices After having estimated, on France 3, that she was “victim of anathema” on the part of Emmanuel Macron, Marine Le Pen said she hoped “that this campaign will take place argument against argument, project against project”. “Far from the caricatures that are made, I think that [le second tour] is an opportunity to have a serene, healthy exchange between two major civilization projects”, also added Mr. Bardella facing Mr. Attal. Read also: Compare the programs of Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen for the presidential election Le Monde with AFP