The Minister for the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, and the Chairman of the Commission eenvironment of the European Parliament, Pascal Canfin, are actively working behind the scenes to defend a “green” assessment of the five-year term, with a view to the 2022 presidential election. The two launched a task force earlier this year “which includes all the components of the majority”, explains Barbara Pompili. The goal, she said, “it is to show that ecology is not only among the Greens.“
The group meets at regular intervals – the next takes place next week – to find a way to enhance the environmental record of the five-year term. It’s the end of single-use plastics, low-emission zones, MaPrimeRénov ‘, the hydrogen plan, among others … “This five-year period has put France on the rails in terms of transition, argues an advisor. The next term is how to speed up “. The working group led by Pompili and Canfin will therefore also make proposals to the candidate Macron, to anticipate the ecological “ruptures” to come. Delivery of copies mid-January.
Getting organized to weigh, that’s a bit what all the ministers are doing at the moment, who are sending notes to the Elysee Palace. Pascal Canfin and Barbara Pompili do not want to be satisfied with recommendations. They are also working to decline their implementation. It is on “doing” that Barbara Pompili wants to make the difference with “other environmentalist speeches“, mainly on the left. “On the objectives, everyone converges, notes an advisor. The real subject is the method.“
And take an example: “Yannick Jadot – the green candidate – says he will put 50 billion euros a year on ecology. But it’s already done! 100 billion already invested by Emmanuel Macron on the subject since Pompili was appointed.“
Another difference that the Pompili-Canfin duo wants to highlight: its ability to “embody a pragmatic ecology“. And to convince the economic players to support the transition. A kind of green lobby from the inside, even if the expression will not necessarily please them.
The duo have already obtained a small victory: to make Emmanuel Macron renounce a moratorium on wind turbines. “It didn’t go far“, says a relative, who sees in the temptation of a time of the executive to suspend the new establishments the sign that the president”still has to build its agenda on ecology rather than endure that of extremes. “
Result: in the majority, others watch with a rather circumspect eye the rise in power of this “green lobby”. A parliamentary group president suspects “Pompili to want to show that if there is a need for a woman in Matignon during the next quinquennium, she is there“It must be said that the minister received a standing ovation on Monday, November 29 at the Mutualité in Paris, at the launch of the common house of the majority. She was longer than her comrades too.”It was long because there was a lot of applause interrupting it“, replied an advisor, smirking.