Elisabeth Borne received the party leaders, the left already says it is disappointed

The Prime Minister opened a cycle of consultations on ecological planning on Monday in Matignon, which must conclude with announcements from Emmanuel Macron on September 25.

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Elisabeth Borne receives political party leaders for a meeting on ecological planning, September 18, 2023, at Matignon, in Paris.  (THOMAS SAMSON / AFP)

After several months of delay, the vagueness remains. Elisabeth Borne brought together political party leaders on Monday, September 18, in Matignon, to present the government’s ecological planning. Accelerate on electric cars, renovate homes, slow down on gas boilers… The executive has started to detail the first avenues of this vast project, but the main announcements will wait. They should be reserved for a speech by Emmanuel Macron, scheduled, according to the Elysée, for September 25.

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This closed-door meeting on Monday aimed to debate solutions for an ecological transition. “just” and no “punitive”, according to Matignon. But, even before the meeting began, the left expressed its doubts. Executive officials “did not set out to get the average” their “remedial oral”judged the national secretary of EELV, Marine Tondelier, upon her arrival.

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“The account is not there”, estimated the boss of the PS, Olivier Faure, after having read the documents received ahead of the meeting. The socialist “fear [une] vacuum planning”while the leader of the Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, said he “without illusions”.

The executive intends to open a “sequence” ten days on the subject. After this “political debate” in Matignon, an exchange between Elisabeth Borne and the members of the National Council for Refoundation must be organized on Tuesday, before a “event” around Emmanuel Macron and the presentation of the 2024 draft budget, on September 27, in the Council of Ministers. In July, the government postponed the presentation of this roadmap, hit by riots and then the reshuffle.


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